Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
CAPH
81 My soul [a]fainted for thy salvation: yet I wait for thy word.
82 Mine eyes fail for thy promise, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
83 For I am like a [b]bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
84 How many are the [c]days of thy servant? When wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
85 The proud have [d]dug pits for me, which is not after thy Law.
86 All thy commandments are true: they persecute me falsely: [e]help me.
87 They had almost consumed [f]me upon the earth: but I forsook not thy precepts.
88 Quicken me according to thy loving kindness: so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
8 But thou son of man, hear what I say unto thee: be not thou rebellious, like this rebellious house: open thy mouth, and [a]eat that I give thee.
9 And when I looked up, behold, an hand was sent unto me, and lo, a roll of a book was therein.
10 And he spread it before me, and it was written within and without, and there was written therein, [b]Lamentations and mourning, and woe.
3 1 The Prophet being fed with the word of God and with the constant boldness of the spirit, is sent unto the people that were in captivity. 17 The office of true ministers.
1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest: [c]eat this roll, and go, and speak unto the house of Israel.
2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this roll to eat.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.
4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go and enter into the house of Israel, and declare them my words.
5 For thou art not sent to a people of an [d]unknown tongue, or of an hard language, but to the house of Israel,
6 Not to many people of an unknown tongue, or of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand: yet if I should send thee to them, they would obey thee.
7 But the house of Israel will not obey thee: for they will not obey me: yea, all the house of Israel are impudent and stiff-hearted.
8 Behold, I have made thy [e]face strong against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
9 I have made thy forehead as the adamant, and harder than the flint: fear them not therefore, neither be afraid at their looks: for they are a rebellious house.
10 He said moreover unto me, Son of man, [f]receive in thine heart all my words that I speak unto thee, and hear them with thine ears,
11 And go and enter to them that are led away captives unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord God: but surely they will not hear, neither will they indeed cease.
16 [a]I say again, Let no man think that I am foolish, or else take me even as a fool, that I also may boast myself a little.
17 That I speak, I speak it not after the Lord: but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting.
18 Seeing that many rejoice after [the] flesh, I will rejoice also.
19 For ye suffer fools gladly, because that ye are wise.
20 [b]For ye suffer, even if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take your goods, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
21 I speak as concerning the [c]reproach: as though that we had been [d]weak: but wherein any man is bold (I speak foolishly) I am bold also.
22 They are Hebrews, (A)so am I: they are Israelites, so am I: they are the seed of Abraham, so am I.
23 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as a fool) I am [e]more: in labors more abundant: in stripes above measure: in prison more plenteously: in [f]death oft.
24 Of the Jews [g]five times received I forty stripes save one.
25 I was [h]thrice (B)beaten with rods: I was (C)once stoned: I suffered thrice (D)shipwreck: night and day have I been in the deep sea.
26 In journeying I was often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of mine own nation, in perils among the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren,
27 In weariness and [i]painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.
28 [j]Beside the things which are outward, I am cumbered daily, and have the care of all the Churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not?
30 [k]If I must needs rejoice, I will rejoice of mine infirmities.
31 The God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
32 In (E)Damascus the governor of the people under King Aretas, laid watch in the city of the Damascenes, and would have caught me.
33 But at a window was I let down in a basket through the wall, and escaped his hands.
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