Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
י Yod
73 Your hands made me and formed me;(A)
give me understanding
so that I can learn Your commands.(B)
74 Those who fear You will see me and rejoice,(C)
for I put my hope in Your word.(D)
75 I know, Lord, that Your judgments are just
and that You have afflicted me fairly.(E)
76 May Your faithful love comfort me
as You promised Your servant.
77 May Your compassion come to me(F)
so that I may live,
for Your instruction is my delight.(G)
78 Let the arrogant be put to shame(H)
for slandering me with lies;
I will meditate on Your precepts.
79 Let those who fear You,
those who know Your decrees, turn to me.
80 May my heart be blameless regarding Your statutes(I)
so that I will not be put to shame.
10 Who can I speak to and give such a warning[a]
that they will listen?
Look, their ear is uncircumcised,[b](A)
so they cannot pay attention.
See, the word of the Lord has become contemptible to them—
they find no pleasure in it.(B)
11 But I am full of the Lord’s wrath;
I am tired of holding it back.(C)
Pour it out on the children in the street,(D)
on the gang of young men as well.
For both husband and wife will be captured,
the old with the very old.[c]
12 Their houses will be turned over to others,(E)
their fields and wives as well,
for I will stretch out My hand(F)
against the inhabitants of the land.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
13 For from the least to the greatest of them,(G)
everyone is making profit dishonestly.(H)
From prophet to priest,
everyone deals falsely.(I)
14 They have treated My people’s brokenness superficially,
claiming, “Peace, peace,”(J)
when there is no peace.
15 Were they ashamed when they acted so abhorrently?
They weren’t at all ashamed.
They can no longer feel humiliation.(K)
Therefore, they will fall among the fallen.
When I punish them, they will collapse,(L)
says the Lord.
Disaster because of Disobedience
16 This is what the Lord says:
The Riot in Ephesus
21 When these events were over, Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem. “After I’ve been there,” he said, “I must see Rome as well!”(A) 22 So after sending two of those who assisted him, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.(B)
23 During that time there was a major[a] disturbance about the Way.(C) 24 For a person named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis,[b] provided a great deal of[c] business for the craftsmen. 25 When he had assembled them, as well as the workers engaged in this type of business, he said: “Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this business. 26 You both see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods!(D) 27 So not only do we run a risk that our business may be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be despised and her magnificence come to the verge of ruin—the very one all of Asia and the world adore.”
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