Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of Your compassions, put away my iniquities.

² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity; and cleanse me from my sin.

³ For I know my iniquities; and my sin is ever before me.

⁴ Against You, against You only, have I sinned and done evil in Your sight; that You may be just when You speak and pure when You judge.

⁵ Behold, I was born in iniquity; and in sin my mother conceived me.

⁶ Behold, You love truth to the core. Therefore, You have taught me wisdom in my core.

⁷ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

⁸ Make me hear joy and gladness; so that the bones which You have broken may rejoice.

⁹ Hide Your Face from my sins; and put away all my iniquities.

¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

¹¹ Do not cast me away from Your presence; and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

¹² Restore to me the joy of Your salvation; and establish me with Your free Spirit.

¹³ Then I shall teach Your ways to the wicked; and sinners shall be converted to You.

¹⁴ Deliver me from blood, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing joyfully of Your righteousness.

¹⁵ Open my lips, O LORD, and my mouth shall show forth Your praise.

¹⁶ For You desire no sacrifice, though I would give it. You do not delight in burnt offering.

¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit. A contrite and a broken heart, O God, You will not despise.

¹⁸ Be favorable to Zion for Your good pleasure. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

¹⁹ Then shall You accept the sacrifices of righteousness, the burnt offering and oblation. Then shall they offer calves upon Your altar. To him who excels: A Psalm of David to give instruction, when Doeg the Edomite came and showed Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

6 Listen now to what the LORD says: “Arise! Plead before the mountains! And let the hills hear your voice!”

² Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s quarrel, and you mighty foundations of the Earth! For the LORD has a quarrel against His people. And He will dispute with Israel.

³ “O My people! What have I done to you? Or in what have I grieved you? Testify against Me.

⁴ “Surely, I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of servants. And I have sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.”

⁵ O My people! Remember now what Balak, king of Moab, had devised, and what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteousness of the LORD.

⁶ With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before Him with Burnt Offerings, with calves of a year old?

⁷ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

⁸ He has shown you, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of you: surely to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

³¹ When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

³² “If God is glorified in Him, God shall also glorify Him in Himself, and shall immediately glorify Him.

³³ “Little children, I am still with you a little while longer. You shall seek Me, but as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’, so also I say to you now.

³⁴ “A new Commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

³⁵ “By this shall all know that you are My disciples - if you have love one to another.”