Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴ Say to them that are of a timid heart, Be strong, fear not; behold your God: vengeance cometh, the recompense of God! He will come himself, and save you.

⁵ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf be unstopped;

⁶ then shall the lame [man] leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and torrents in the desert.

⁷ And the mirage shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of wild dogs, where they lay down, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

146 Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul.

² As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing psalms unto my God while I have my being.

³ Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

⁴ His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.

⁵ Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God,

⁶ Who made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever;

⁷ Who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth bread to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;

⁸ Jehovah openeth [the eyes of] the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;

⁹ Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.

¹⁰ Jehovah will reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluiah!

2 My brethren, do not have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [Lord] of glory, with respect of persons:

² for if there come unto your synagogue a man with a gold ring in splendid apparel, and a poor man also come in in vile apparel,

³ and ye look upon him who wears the splendid apparel, and say, Do thou sit here well, and say to the poor, Do thou stand there, or sit here under my footstool:

⁴ have ye not made a difference among yourselves, and become judges having evil thoughts?

⁵ Hear, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor as to the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him?

⁶ But *ye* have despised the poor [man]. Do not the rich oppress you, and [do not] *they* drag you before [the] tribunals?

⁷ And [do not] *they* blaspheme the excellent name which has been called upon you?

⁸ If indeed ye keep [the] royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

⁹ But if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

¹⁰ For whoever shall keep the whole law and shall offend in one [point], he has come under the guilt of [breaking] all.

¹¹ For he who said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become transgressor of [the] law.

¹² So speak ye, and so act, as those that are to be judged by [the] law of liberty;

¹³ for judgment [will be] without mercy to him that has shewn no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

¹⁴ What [is] the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him?

¹⁵ Now if a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of daily food,

¹⁶ and one from amongst you say to them, Go in peace, be warmed and filled; but give not to them the needful things for the body, what [is] the profit?

¹⁷ So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

²⁴ And he rose up and went away thence into the borders of Tyre and Sidon; and having entered into a house he would not have any one know [it], and he could not be hid.

²⁵ But immediately a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell at his feet

²⁶ (and the woman was a Greek, Syrophenician by race), and asked him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

²⁷ But [Jesus] said to her, Suffer the children to be first filled; for it is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

²⁸ But she answered and says to him, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

²⁹ And he said to her, Because of this word, go thy way, the demon is gone out of thy daughter.

³⁰ And having gone away to her house she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed.

³¹ And again having left the borders of Tyre and Sidon, he came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.

³² And they bring to him a deaf [man] who could not speak right, and they beseech him that he might lay his hand on him.

³³ And having taken him away from the crowd apart, he put his fingers to his ears; and having spit, he touched his tongue;

³⁴ and looking up to heaven he groaned, and says to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

³⁵ And immediately his ears were opened, and the band of his tongue was loosed and he spoke right.

³⁶ And he charged them that they should speak to no one [of it]. But so much the more *he* charged them, so much the more abundantly *they* proclaimed it;

³⁷ and they were astonished above measure, saying, He does all things well; he makes both the deaf to hear, and the speechless to speak.