Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Yahweh Will Set the Needy in Safety
For the choir director. According to the [a]Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
12 Save, O Yahweh, for (A)the holy man ceases to be,
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
2 They (B)speak worthlessness to one another;
With a (C)flattering lip and with a double heart they speak.
3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that (D)speaks great things;
4 Who (E)have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are [b]our own; who is lord over us?”
5 “Because of the (F)devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now (G)I will arise,” says Yahweh; “I will (H)set him in the [c]safety for which he [d]longs.”
17 (A)Better is a dry morsel and tranquility with it
Than a house full of [a]feasting with strife.
2 A slave who acts insightfully will rule over a son who acts shamefully,
And will share in the inheritance among brothers.
3 The (B)refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
But (C)Yahweh tests hearts.
4 An (D)evildoer gives heed to lips of wickedness;
[b]A liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.
5 He who mocks the (E)poor reproaches his Maker;
He who is (F)glad at disaster will not go unpunished.
19 For though I am (A)free from all, I have made myself (B)a slave to all, so that I may (C)win more. 20 (D)And to the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews. To those who are under [a]the Law, as under [b]the Law though (E)not being myself under [c]the Law, so that I might win those who are under [d]the Law. 21 To those who are (F)without law, (G)as without law, though not being without the law of God but (H)under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. 22 To the (I)weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become (J)all things to all men, (K)so that I may by all means save some. 23 So I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.
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