Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
ת Tav
169 Let my cry reach You, Lord;(A)
give me understanding according to Your word.(B)
170 Let my plea reach You;(C)
rescue me according to Your promise.(D)
171 My lips pour out praise,(E)
for You teach me Your statutes.(F)
172 My tongue sings about Your promise,(G)
for all Your commands are righteous.(H)
173 May Your hand be ready to help me,(I)
for I have chosen Your precepts.(J)
174 I long for Your salvation, Lord,
and Your instruction is my delight.(K)
175 Let me live, and I will praise You;(L)
may Your judgments help me.
176 I wander like a lost sheep;(M)
seek Your servant,(N)
for I do not forget Your commands.(O)
Judgment on Assyria
12 But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I[a] will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.” 13 For he said:
I have done this by my own strength
and wisdom, for I am clever.
I abolished the borders of nations
and plundered their treasures;
like a mighty warrior, I subjugated the inhabitants.[b]
14 My hand has reached out, as if into a nest,
to seize the wealth of the nations.
Like one gathering abandoned eggs,
I gathered the whole earth.
No wing fluttered;
no beak opened or chirped.
15 Does an ax exalt itself
above the one who chops with it?
Does a saw magnify itself
above the one who saws with it?
It would be like a staff waving the one who lifts[c] it!
It would be like a rod lifting a man who isn’t wood!
16 Therefore the Lord God of Hosts
will inflict an emaciating disease
on the well-fed of Assyria,
and He will kindle a burning fire
under its glory.
17 Israel’s Light will become a fire,
and its Holy One, a flame.
In one day it will burn up Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
18 He will completely destroy
the glory of its forests and orchards
as a sickness consumes a person.
19 The remaining trees of its forest
will be so few in number
that a child could count them.
The Remnant Will Return
20 On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on the one who struck them, but they will faithfully depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.(A)
The Identity of the Messiah
25 Some of the people of Jerusalem(A) were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill? 26 Yet, look! He’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be true that the authorities(B) know He is the Messiah?(C) 27 But we know where this man is from.(D) When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where He is from.”
28 As He was teaching in the temple complex,(E) Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me(F) is true. You don’t know Him;(G) 29 I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”(H)
30 Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour[a] had not yet come. 31 However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this man has done,(I) will He?”
32 The Pharisees(J) heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests(K) and the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.
33 Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time.(L) Then I’m going to the One who sent Me.(M) 34 You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”(N)
35 Then the Jews(O) said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion[b](P) among the Greeks(Q) and teach the Greeks, does He? 36 What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’(R)?”
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