Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
37 Do not fret because of wicked men, nor be envious of evildoers.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like grass and shall wither as the green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD and do good. Dwell in the land, and you shall assuredly be fed.
4 And delight yourself in the LORD; and He shall give you your heart’s desire.
5 Commit your way to the LORD, and trust in Him; and He shall make it so.
6 And He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noon day.
7 Wait patiently upon the LORD, and hope in Him. Do not fret over him who prospers in his way, nor over the man who executes wicked schemes.
8 Cease from anger and abandon wrath. Do not fret. It leads only to evil.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off; and those who wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the land.
10 Therefore, yet a little while and the wicked shall not appear; and you shall look for his place and he shall not be found.
11 But meek men shall possess the Earth and shall have their delight in the multitude of peace.
39 But the salvation of the righteous men shall be from the LORD. He shall be their strength in the time of trouble.
40 For the LORD shall help them and deliver them. He shall deliver them from the wicked, and shall save them, because they trust in Him. A Psalm of David, for remembrance.
18 Then Judah drew near to him, and said, “Oh my lord, let your servant now speak a word in my lord’s ears; and do not let your wrath be kindled against your servant. For you are just as Pharaoh.
19 “My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
20 “And we answered my lord, ‘We have a father who is old, and a young child whom he begat in his old age. And his brother is dead; and he is the only surviving son of his mother. And his father loves him.’
21 “Now you said to your servants, ‘Bring him to me, so that I may set my eye upon him.’
22 “And we answered my lord, ‘The child cannot leave his father. For if he leaves him, his father will die.’
23 “Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will look in my face no more.’
24 “So, when we came to your servant, our father, we showed him what my lord had said.
25 “And our father said to us, ‘Go back. Buy us a little food.’
26 “Then we answered, ‘We cannot go down. But, if our youngest brother goes with us, then will we go down. For we may not see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’
27 “Then your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
28 ‘And one went out from me, and I said, “Surely he is torn in pieces.” And I have not seen him since.
29 ‘Now you also take this away from me. If death takes him, then you shall bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow.’
30 “Now, therefore, when I shall come to your servant, my father, and the child is not with us (seeing that his life depends on the child’s life),
31 “then (when he shall see that the child has not come) he will die. So shall your servants bring down the gray head of your servant, our father, to the grave with sorrow.
32 “Doubtless, your servant became surety for the child to my father; and, if I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.
33 “Now, therefore, please let me, your servant, stand in for the child (as a servant to my lord) and let the child go up with his brothers.
34 “For how can I go up to my father if the child is not with me, lest I would see the evil that shall come on my father.”
57 “Indeed, and why do you not judge what is right even among yourselves?
58 “While you go with your adversary to the ruler, work diligently on the way to be delivered from him. Lest he draws you to the judge and the judge delivers you to the jailer. And the jailer casts you into prison.
59 I tell you, you shall not depart from there till you have paid the last cent.
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