Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

¹³ Return, O Lord! How long? And let Thee repent concerning Thy servants.

¹⁴ O satisfy us early with Thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

¹⁵ Make us glad according to the days wherein Thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

¹⁶ Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, and Thy glory unto their children.

¹⁷ And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish Thou the work of our hands for us—yea, the work of our hands, establish Thou it.

¹³ “Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob,” saith the Lord God, the God of hosts,

¹⁴ “that in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.

¹⁵ And I will smite the winter house and the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end,” saith the Lord.

4 Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters, “Bring, and let us drink.”

² The Lord God hath sworn by His holiness that: “Lo, the days shall come upon you, that He will take you away with hooks and your posterity with fishhooks.

³ And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her, and ye shall cast them into the palace,” saith the Lord.

⁴ “Come to Bethel and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning and your tithes after three years.

⁵ And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings; for so ye love, O ye children of Israel,” saith the Lord God.

15 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, who were from Jerusalem, saying,

² “Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.”

³ But He answered and said unto them, “Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

⁴ For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor thy father and mother,’ and, ‘He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.’

⁵ But ye say that whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, ‘by whatsoever thou might have profited by me, it is a gift,’

⁶ and honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

⁷ Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

⁸ ‘This people draweth nigh unto Me with their mouth, and honoreth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

⁹ But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.’”