Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
מ Mem
97 How I love Your instruction!(A)
It is my meditation all day long.(B)
98 Your commands make me wiser than my enemies,(C)
for they are always with me.
99 I have more insight than all my teachers
because Your decrees are my meditation.(D)
100 I understand more than the elders(E)
because I obey Your precepts.(F)
101 I have kept my feet from every evil path(G)
to follow Your word.
102 I have not turned from Your judgments,(H)
for You Yourself have instructed me.
103 How sweet Your word is(I) to my taste—
sweeter than honey in my mouth.
104 I gain understanding from Your precepts;(J)
therefore I hate every false way.(K)
10 “Now I will rise up,”(A) says the Lord.
“Now I will lift Myself up.
Now I will be exalted.
11 You will conceive chaff;(B)
you will give birth to stubble.
Your breath is fire that will consume you.
12 The peoples will be burned to ashes,
like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.
13 You who are far off, hear what I have done;
you who are near,(C) know My strength.”
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling seizes the ungodly:
“Who among us can dwell with a consuming fire?(D)
Who among us can dwell with ever-burning flames?”
15 The one who lives righteously
and speaks rightly,(E)
who refuses gain from extortion,
whose hand never takes a bribe,
who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots[a]
and shuts his eyes to avoid endorsing evil[b](F)—
16 he will dwell on the heights;
his refuge will be the rocky fortresses,
his food provided, his water assured.
16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you.(A) I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask(B) the Father in My name,(C) He will give you.(D) 17 This is what I command you: Love one another.
Persecutions Predicted
18 “If the world hates(E) you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen(F) you out of it, the world hates you. 20 Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’(G) If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word,(H) they will also keep yours. 21 But they will do all these things to you on account of My name,(I) because they don’t know(J) the One who sent Me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin.[a](K) Now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 The one who hates Me also hates My Father.(L) 24 If I had not done the works(M) among them that no one else has done,(N) they would not have sin.(O) Now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. 25 But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled:(P) They hated Me for no reason.(Q)[b]
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