Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

26 Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my innocence. My trust has also been in the LORD. Therefore, I shall not slide.

² Test me, O LORD, and try me. Examine my core and my heart.

³ For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes. Therefore, I have walked in Your truth.

⁴ I have not dwelt with frivolous people, nor kept company with the deceitful.

⁵ I have hated the assembly of the evil and have not kept company with the wicked.

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence, O LORD, and surround Your altar.

⁷ So that I may declare with the voice of thanksgiving and set forth all Your wondrous works.

⁸ O LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house, and the place where Your honor dwells.

⁹ Do not gather my soul with the sinners, nor my life with the bloody men,

¹⁰ in whose hands are wickedness, and their right hands are full of bribes.

¹¹ But I will walk in my innocence. Redeem me and be merciful to me.

¹² My foot stands in uprightness. I will praise You, O LORD, in the Congregations. A Psalm of David.

¹⁷ “But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance. And it shall be holy. And the House of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

¹⁸ And the House of Jacob shall be a fire, and the House of Joseph a flame, and the House of Esau as stubble. And they shall kindle them and devour them. And there shall be no remnant of the House of Esau,” for the LORD has spoken it.

¹⁹ And they shall possess the southern side of the Mount of Esau and the plain of the Philistines. And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria. And Benjamin shall have Gilead.

²⁰ And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel who were among the Canaanites shall possess to Zarephath. And the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South.

²¹ And those who shall save shall come up to Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau. And the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.

¹⁹ “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared well and delicately every day.

²⁰ “Also, there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate (full of sores).

²¹ “And he desired to be refreshed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. And even the dogs came and licked his sores.

²² “And it happened that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.

²³ “And being in torment in Hell, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off (and Lazarus in his bosom).

²⁴ “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me! And send Lazarus, so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am tormented in this flame!’

²⁵ “But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your pleasures, and likewise Lazarus pains. Therefore, now he is comforted and you are tormented.

²⁶ ‘Besides all this, there is a great gulf set between you and us, so that those who wish to go from here to you, cannot. Nor can anyone come from there to us.’

²⁷ “Then he said, ‘Therefore I ask you, father, if you would send him to my father’s house,

²⁸ ‘(for I have five brothers) so that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’

²⁹ “Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets. Let them hear them.’

³⁰ “And he said, ‘No, father Abraham. But if one came to them from the dead, they will repent.’

³¹ “Then he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded if one rises from the dead again.’”