Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To You I Lift Up My Eyes

A Song of Ascents.

Yahweh’s Warning from the Temple Gate

7 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, ² “^(A)Stand in the gate of the house of Yahweh, and you shall call out there this word, and you shall say, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship Yahweh!’” ³ Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “^(B)Make your ways and your deeds good, and I will let you dwell in this place. ^4 (C)Do not trust in lying words, saying, ‘^[a]This is the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh.’ ⁵ For ^(D)if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly ^(E)do justice between a man and his neighbor, ⁶ if you do not oppress the sojourner, the ^[b](F)orphan, or the widow, and do not shed ^(G)innocent blood in this place, nor ^(H)walk after other gods to your own evil demise, ⁷ then I will let you ^(I)dwell in this place, in the ^(J)land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

⁸ “Behold, you are trusting in ^(K)lying words to no avail. ⁹ Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear while lying, and ^(L)burn incense to Baal and walk after ^(M)other gods that you have not known, ¹⁰ then ^(N)come and stand before Me in ^(O)this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—that you may do all these abominations? ¹¹ Has ^(P)this house, which is called by My name, become a ^(Q)robbers’ den in your sight? Behold, ^(R)I, even I, have seen it,” declares Yahweh.

¹² “But go now to My place which was in ^(S)Shiloh, where I ^(T)made My name dwell at the first, and ^(U)see what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel. ¹³ And now, because you have done all these works,” declares Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, ^(V)rising up early and ^(W)speaking, but you did not hear, and I ^(X)called you but you did not answer, ¹⁴ therefore, I will do to the ^(Y)house which is called by My name, ^(Z)in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I ^(AA)did to Shiloh. ¹⁵ I will ^(AB)cast you out of My presence, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the seed of ^(AC)Ephraim.

⁸ You are ^(A)already filled, you have already become rich, you have ruled without us—and how I wish that you had ruled indeed so that we also might rule with you. ⁹ For, I think that God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men ^(B)condemned to death, because we ^(C)have become a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men. ¹⁰ We are ^(D)fools for the sake of Christ, but ^(E)you are prudent in Christ! ^(F)We are weak, but you are strong! You are glorious, but we are without honor! ¹¹ To this present hour we ^(G)hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and roughly treated, and homeless; ¹² and we labor, ^(H)working with our own hands; when we are ^(I)reviled, we bless; when we are ^(J)persecuted, we endure; ¹³ when we are slandered, we try to plead; we have ^(K)become as the scum of the world, the grime of all things, even until now.