Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
16 I will call to God and the LORD will save me.
17 Evening and morning, and at noon, I will pray and make a noise; and He will hear my voice.
18 He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle against me, for many were with me.
19 God shall hear and afflict them, even He Who reigns of old. Selah. Because they do not change, therefore they do not fear God.
20 He laid his hand upon such who are at peace with Him. He broke His Covenant.
21 The words of his mouth were softer than butter; yet war was in his heart. His words were more gentle than oil; yet they were swords.
22 Cast your burden upon the LORD, and He shall nourish you. He will not allow the righteous to fall forever.
23 And You, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of corruption. The bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days. But I will trust in You. To him who excels: A Psalm of David on Michtam, concerning the dumb dove in a far country, when the Philistines took him in Gath
6 That night, the king did not sleep. And he commanded that the Book of the Records be brought, and the Chronicles. And they were read before the king.
2 Then, it was found written what Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.
3 Then the king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?” And the king’s servants said, “Nothing.”
4 And the king said, “Who is in the court?” (Now Haman had come into the inner court of the king’s house to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the tree that he had prepared for him).
5 And the king’s servants said to him, “Behold, Haman stands in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”
6 And when Haman came in, the king said to him, “What shall be done for the man whom the king will honor?” Then Haman thought in his heart, “To whom would the king do honor more than to me?”
7 And Haman answered the king, “The man whom the king would honor,
8 “should be brought the royal apparel which the king used to wear, and the horse that the king used to ride on, with the crown royal set upon his head.
9 “And let the clothing and the horse be delivered by the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes. And let them dress the man whom the king will honor and have him ride upon the horse through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king will honor.’”
10 Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry, take the clothing and the horse, and do as you have said for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing be left out of all that you have spoken.”
11 So Haman took the clothing and the horse, and dressed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king will honor!”
12 And Mordecai came back to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried home, mourning, with his head covered.
13 And Haman told Zeresh, his wife, and all his friends, all that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh, his wife, said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish origin, you shall not prevail against him, but shall surely fall before him.”
14 And while they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came and quickly brought Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
7 So, the king and Haman came to banquet with Queen Esther.
2 And the king repeated to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, Queen Esther that it may be given to you? And what is your request? It shall be done, even up to the half of the kingdom.”
3 And Esther the Queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request.
4 “For we are sold —I and my people —to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. If we were merely sold as servants and handmaids, I would have held my tongue, for it would not have been worth the king’s time.”
5 Then king Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he? And where is he who presumes to do this?”
6 And Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman.” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who did not follow righteousness, have attained righteousness, even the righteousness that is by faith;
31 but Israel, which followed the Law of righteousness, could not attain the Law of righteousness.
32 Why? Because they did not not seek it by faith, but by the works of the Law. For they have stumbled at the stumbling stone.
33 As it is written: “Behold, I lay a stumbling stone in Zion; an ensnaring rock. And everyone who believes in Him, shall not be ashamed.”
10 Brothers, my heart’s desire - and my prayer to God for Israel - is that they might be saved.
2 For I testify about them that they have the zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness, for everyone who believes.
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