Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁷ O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, deal with us according to Your Name. For our rebellions are many. We sinned against You.

⁸ O, You Hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble! Why are You as a stranger in the land, as one who passes through, to tarry for a night?

⁹ Why are You as a man astonished, and as a strong man who cannot help? Yet You, O LORD, are in the midst of us. And Your Name has called upon us. Do not forsake us.

¹⁰ Thus says the LORD to this people: “Thus have they delighted in wandering. They have not refrained their feet.” Therefore, the LORD has no delight in them. He will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins.

¹⁹ Have You utterly rejected Judah? Or has Your Soul abhorred Zion? Why have You stricken us, so that we cannot be healed? We looked for peace and there is no good, and for the time of health and behold trouble.

²⁰ We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers. For we have sinned against You.

²¹ Do not abhor. For Your Name’s sake, do not cast down the throne of Your Glory. Remember. Do not break Your Covenant with us.

²² Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can give rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O LORD our God? Therefore, we will wait upon You. For You have made all these things.

84 O LORD of Hosts, how lovely are Your Tabernacles!

² My soul longs, indeed, and fainted for the courts of the LORD! My heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God!

³ Indeed, the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for her; where she may lay her young by Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my God.

⁴ Blessed are those who dwell in Your House. They will ever praise You. Selah.

⁵ Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart are Your ways.

⁶ They, going through the valley of Baca, make wells therein. The rain also covers the pools.

⁷ They go from strength to strength, until every one appears before God in Zion.

⁶ For I am already being offered. And the time of my departing is at hand.

⁷ I have fought the good fight and have finished my course. I have kept the faith.

⁸ Hereafter, the crown of righteousness - which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, shall give me on that Day - is laid up for me. And not only to me but also to all those who love His appearing.

¹⁶ At my first defense, no one stood by me. But, all deserted me. May it not be counted against them.

¹⁷ But the Lord assisted me and strengthened me; so that by me the preaching might be fully believed, and that all the Gentiles should hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me for His Heavenly Kingdom. To Him be praise for ever and ever! Amen.

⁹ He also spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves (that they were just) and despised others.

¹⁰ “Two men went up into the Temple to pray - the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

¹¹ “The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘O God, I thank You that I am not as other men - extortioners, unjust, adulterers - or even as this tax collector.

¹² ‘I fast twice a week. I give tithe of all that ever I possess.’

¹³ “But the tax collector, standing at a distance, would not lift up so much as his eyes to Heaven. But he struck his breast, saying, ‘O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.’

¹⁴ “I tell you, this man departed to his house more justified than the other. For everyone who exalts himself shall be brought low. And the one who humbles himself shall be exalted.”