Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
16 Preserve me, O God. For in You do I trust.
2 O my soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are my LORD. My goodness is not, but for You.”
3 To the saints who are on the Earth, and to the excellent, all my delight is in them.
4 The sorrows of those who offer to another god shall be multiplied. Their offerings of blood I will not offer; nor make mention of their names with my lips.
5 The LORD is the portion of my inheritance, and of my cup. You shall maintain my lot.
6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a fair heritage.
7 I will praise the LORD Who has given me counsel. My core also teaches me in the nights.
8 I have set the LORD always before me. For He is at my right hand. Therefore, I shall not slide.
9 Therefore, my heart is glad. And my tongue rejoices. My flesh, also, rests in hope.
10 For You will not leave my soul in the grave. Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
11 You will show me the path of life. In Your presence is the fullness of joy. And at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. The prayer of David.
15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked. You are fat, you are thick, you are engorged with fatness. Therefore, he forsook God, Who made him, and did not regard the strong God of his salvation.
16 “They provoked Him with strange gods. They provoked Him to anger with abominations.
17 “They offered to demons, not to God, to gods whom they did not know, newcomers, whom their fathers did not fear.
18 “You have forgotten the mighty God Who begat you, and have forgotten the God Who formed you.
19 “The LORD then saw it and was angry, because of the provocation of His sons and of His daughters.
20 “And He said, ‘I will hide My Face from them. I will see what their end shall be. For they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faith.
21 ‘They have moved Me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities; and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22 ‘For fire is kindled in My wrath, and shall burn to the bottom of Hell, and shall consume the Earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 ‘I will use all My plagues upon them. I will heap My arrows upon them.
24 ‘They shall be empty with hunger and consumed with heat and bitter destruction. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the venom of serpents in the dust.
25 ‘The sword shall kill them outside and fear shall be within them: the young man, the young woman, the suckling and the man of gray hair.
26 “I have said, ‘I would have scattered them abroad. I would have made their remembrance cease from among men,
27 ‘if not for my fear of the fury of the enemy, lest their adversaries should grow proud, lest they should say, “Our high hand, and not the LORD, has done all this.’
39 ‘Behold now. For I, I am He. And there are no gods with Me. I kill and give life. I wound. And I make whole. Nor is there anyone who can deliver out of My hand.
40 ‘For I lift up My hand to Heaven, and say, ‘I live forever.
41 ‘If I whet My glittering sword, and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will execute vengeance on My enemies, and will reward those who hate Me.
42 ‘I will make My arrows drunk with blood and My sword shall eat flesh —for the blood of the slain and of the captives—when I begin to take vengeance on the enemy.’
43 “Rejoice, O you nations of His people! For He will avenge the blood of His servants, and will execute vengeance upon His adversaries, and will be merciful to His land, and to His people.”
21 And He warned and commanded them to tell that to no one,
22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, and by the chief priests and scribes, and be killed; and the third day rise again.”
23 And He said to them all, “If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
24 “For whoever would save his life, shall lose it. And whoever shall lose his life, for my sake, the same shall save it.
25 "For what does it benefit a man if he wins the whole world and destroys himself, or loses himself?
26 “For whoever shall be ashamed of Me and My words, of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when He shall come in His own Glory, and in the Glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
27 “And I tell you truly, there are some standing here who shall not taste of death till they have seen the Kingdom of God.”
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