Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹³ Lord—how long?
Turn and have compassion on Your servants.^(B)
14 Satisfy us in the morning with Your faithful love
so that we may shout with joy and be glad all our days.^(C)
15 Make us rejoice for as many days as You have humbled us,
for as many years as we have seen adversity.^(D)
16 Let Your work be seen by Your servants,
and Your splendor by their children.^(E)
17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us;
establish for us the work of our hands—
establish the work of our hands!^(F)

¹³ Listen and testify^(A) against the house of Jacob—
this is the declaration of the Lord God,
the God of Hosts.
¹⁴ I will punish the altars of Bethel^(B)
on the day I punish Israel for its crimes;
the horns of the altar^(C) will be cut off
and fall to the ground.^(D)
15 I will demolish the winter house^(E)
and the summer house;^(F)
the houses inlaid with ivory^(G) will be destroyed,
and the great houses^(H) will come to an end.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Look, the days are coming^[a]
when you will be taken away with hooks,^(N)
every last one of you with fishhooks.^(O)
3 You will go through breaches in the wall,^(P)
each woman straight ahead,
and you will be driven along toward Harmon.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

⁴ Come to Bethel and rebel;
rebel even more at Gilgal!^(Q)
Bring your sacrifices every morning,^(R)
your tenths every three days.
⁵ Offer leavened bread as a thank offering,^(S)
and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings,^(T)
for that is what you Israelites love to do!^(U)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Honor your father and your mother;^(E)[c] and,
The one who speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.^(F)[d]

⁸ These people^[g] honor Me with their lips,
but their heart is far from Me.
⁹ They worship Me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the commands of men.”^(G)[h]