Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Yodh
73 (A)Your hands made me and established me;
(B)Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.
74 May those who [a]fear You (C)see me and be glad,
Because I [b](D)wait for Your word.
75 I know, O Yahweh, that Your judgments are (E)righteous,
And that (F)in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
76 Oh may Your lovingkindness [c]comfort me,
According to Your [d]word to Your slave.
77 May (G)Your compassion come to me that I may live,
For Your law is my (H)delight.
78 May (I)the arrogant be ashamed, for they wrong me (J)with lying;
But I shall (K)muse on Your precepts.
79 May those who [e]fear You turn to me,
And those who know Your testimonies.
80 May my heart be [f](L)blameless in Your statutes,
So that I will not (M)be ashamed.
10 To whom shall I speak and give warning
That they may hear?
Behold, their (A)ears are uncircumcised,
And they cannot give heed.
Behold, (B)the word of Yahweh has become a reproach to them;
They have no delight in it.
11 But I am (C)full of the wrath of Yahweh;
I am (D)weary of holding it in.
“(E)Pour it out on the infants in the street
And on the [a]gathering of choice men together;
For both husband and wife shall be captured,
The aged with the one full of days.
12 Their (F)houses shall be turned over to others,
Their fields and their wives together,
For I will (G)stretch out My hand
Against the inhabitants of the land,” declares Yahweh.
13 “For (H)from the least of them even to the greatest of them,
Everyone is (I)greedy for gain,
And from the prophet even to the priest
Everyone practices lying.
14 They have (J)healed the brokenness of My people superficially,
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.
15 Were they (K)ashamed because of the abomination they have done?
They were not even ashamed at all;
They did not even know how to feel dishonor.
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time that I punish them,
They shall be cast down,” says Yahweh.
16 Thus says Yahweh,
“Stand by the ways and see and ask for the (L)ancient paths,
Where the good way is, and walk in it;
And (M)you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
17 And I set (N)watchmen over you, saying,
‘Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!’
But they said, ‘We will not give heed.’
18 Therefore hear, O nations,
And know, O congregation, what is among them.
19 (O)Hear, O earth: behold, I am bringing evil on this people,
The (P)fruit of their [b]plans,
Because they have not given heed to My words,
And as for My law, they have (Q)rejected it also.
Riots in Ephesus
21 Now after these things were finished, Paul purposed in the [a]Spirit to (A)go to Jerusalem (B)after he had passed through (C)Macedonia and (D)Achaia, saying, “After I have been there, (E)I must also see Rome.” 22 And having sent into (F)Macedonia two of (G)those who ministered to him, (H)Timothy and (I)Erastus, he himself stayed in [b](J)Asia for a while.
23 Now about that time there occurred no small disturbance concerning (K)the Way. 24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of [c]Artemis, (L)was bringing no little [d]business to the craftsmen; 25 these he gathered together with the workers of similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity is from this business. 26 And you see and hear that not only in (M)Ephesus, but in almost all of (N)Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable crowd, saying that (O)things made with hands are not gods. 27 And not only is there danger that this trade of ours fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess [e]Artemis be considered as worthless and that she, whom all of (P)Asia and (Q)the [f]world worship, is even about to be brought down from her majesty.”
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