Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² Teach us to number our days, so that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

¹³ Return (O LORD, how long?) and be pacified toward Your servants.

¹⁴ Fill us with Your mercy in the morning. So shall we rejoice and be glad all our days!

¹⁵ Comfort us according to the days that You have afflicted us, according to the years that we have seen evil.

¹⁶ Let Your work be seen toward Your servants, and Your Glory upon their children.

¹⁷ And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us and direct the work of our hands upon us, even direct the work of our hands.

¹³ “Hear, and testify in the house of Jacob,” says the LORD God, the God of hosts,

¹⁴ “Surely, on 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 broken off and fall to the ground.

¹⁵ “And I will strike the winter house along with the summer house. And the houses of ivory shall perish. And the great houses shall be consumed,” says the LORD. Against the governors of Samaria.

4 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria; who oppress the poor, destroy the needy; and they say to their masters, “Bring, and let us drink!”

² The LORD God has sworn by His holiness, “Lo, the days shall come upon you in which He will take you away with thorns, and your posterity with fishhooks.

³ “And you shall go out at the wall’s breaches, everyone forward. And you shall cast yourselves out of the palace,” says the LORD.

⁴ “Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression. And bring your sacrifices in the morning; and your riches after three years.

⁵ “And offer a thanksgiving of leaven; publish and proclaim the free offerings. For this you love, O children of Israel,” says the LORD God.

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

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

³ But He answered and said to them, “And why do you transgress the Commandment of God by your tradition?

⁴ “For God has commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and mother. And the one who curses father or mother, let him die the death.’

⁵ “But you say, ‘Whoever shall say to father or mother, “By the gift that is offered by me,” you may have profit;

⁶ though he does not honor his father or his mother. Thus, by your tradition, you have made the Commandment of God of no authority.

⁷ “O hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied well of you, saying,

⁸ “‘This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with the lips, but their heart is far away from Me.

⁹ ‘But they worship Me in vain, teaching men’s precepts as doctrines.’”