Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²¹ But You, O LORD my God, deal with me according to Your Name. Deliver me (for Your mercy is good).

²² Because I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

²³ I depart like the shadow that declines and am shaken off as the grasshopper.

²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh has lost fatness.

²⁵ I also became a rebuke to them. Those who looked upon me shook their heads.

²⁶ Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to Your mercy.

²⁷ And they shall know that this is Your hand and that You, LORD, have done it.

²⁸ They curse. Yet You will bless. They shall arise and be confounded; but Your servant shall rejoice.

²⁹ Let my adversaries be clothed with shame; and let them cover themselves with their confusion, as with a cloak.

³⁰ I will give great thanks to the LORD with my mouth and praise Him among the multitude.

³¹ For He will stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who would condemn his soul. A Psalm of David

³³ “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will surely rule you with a mighty Hand, and with an outstretched Arm, and with wrath poured out.

³⁴ “And will bring you from the people and will gather you out of the countries to which you are scattered, with a mighty Hand and with an outstretched Arm, and with wrath poured out.

³⁵ “And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people. And I will plead with you there, face to face.

³⁶ “As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you,” says the Lord GOD.

³⁷ “And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and will bring you into the bond of the Covenant.

³⁸ “And I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me. I will bring them out of the land where they dwell. And they shall not enter into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the LORD.”

³⁹ “As for you, O House of Israel,” thus says the Lord GOD: “Go, and everyone serve his idol, seeing that you will not obey Me. And no longer profane My Holy Name with your gifts, and with your idols.

⁴⁰ “For there, on My Holy Mountain, on the high mountain of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “all the House of Israel, and all in the land, shall serve Me. There I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

⁴¹ “I will accept your sweet savor, when I bring you from the people and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered, so that I may be sanctified in you before the heathen.

⁴² “And you shall know that I am the LORD when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the land for which I lifted up My Hand to give to your fathers.

⁴³ “And there you shall remember your ways, and all your works in which you have been defiled. And you shall judge yourselves worthy to be cut off, for all your evils that you have committed.

⁴⁴ “And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you for My Name’s sake and not after your wicked ways or according to your corrupt works, O you House of Israel,” says the Lord GOD.”’”

⁶ It also happened that on another Sabbath, He entered into the synagogue and taught. And there was a man whose right hand was dried up.

⁷ And the scribes and Pharisees watched Him, to see if He would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against Him.

⁸ But He knew their thoughts and said to the man who had the withered hand, “Arise, and stand up in the midst.” And he arose and stood up.

⁹ Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you a question: Which is lawful on the Sabbath days - to do good, or to do evil; to save life, or to destroy?”

¹⁰ And He looked around at them all and said to the man, “Stretch forth your hand.” And he did so. And his hand was restored again, as whole as the other.

¹¹ Then they were filled with madness and discussed what they might do to Jesus.