Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

141 O LORD, I call upon You! Hurry to me! Hear my voice when I cry to You!

² Let my prayer be directed in Your sight as incense, the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.

³ Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

⁴ Do not incline my heart to evil, so that I would commit wicked works with those who work iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies.

⁵ Let the righteous strike me; for that is a benefit. And let him reprove me; it shall be as a precious oil that shall not break my head. For after a while, I shall even pray in their miseries.

⁶ When their judges are cast down in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

⁷ Our bones lie scattered at the grave’s mouth, as he who hews or digs in the earth.

⁸ But my eyes look to You, O LORD God. In You is my trust. Do not leave my soul destitute.

⁹ Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape. A Psalm of David, to give instruction; and a prayer when he was in the cave

¹⁴ The Word of the LORD came to me again, saying:

¹⁵ “Son of man. Your brethren, your relatives, your kinsmen, and all the House of Israel, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from the LORD! This land has been given to us as a possession!’

¹⁶ “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Although I have cast them far away, among the heathen; and although I have scattered them among the countries, I will still be to them as a little Sanctuary in the countries where they shall go.”’

¹⁷ “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will gather you again from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will give you the land of Israel.

¹⁸ “And they shall come there; and they shall take away all its idols, and all its abominations from there.

¹⁹ “And I will give them one heart. And I will put a new spirit within their core. And I will take the stony heart out of their bodies. And will give them a heart of flesh,

²⁰ “so that they may walk in My Statutes, and keep My Judgments, and execute them. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God.

²¹ “But upon those whose heart is toward their idols, and whose affection goes after their abominations, I will lay their way upon their own heads,” says the Lord GOD.’”

²² Then, the Cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels with them, and the Glory of the God of Israel was upon them on high.

²³ And the Glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood upon the mountain which is toward the east side of the city.

²⁴ Afterward, the Spirit took me up and brought me, in a vision by the Spirit of God, into Chaldea, to those who were led away as captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.

²⁵ Then I declared all the things that the LORD had shown me to those who had been led away as captives.

²⁵ Therefore, having laid aside lying, everyone speak truth to his neighbor. For we are members one of another.

²⁶ Be angry, but do not sin. Do not let the Sun go down upon your irritation,

²⁷ nor give place to the devil.

²⁸ Let him who stole, steal no more. But rather, let him labor and work with his hands that which is good, so that he may have something to give to those in need.

²⁹ Let no worthless word proceed out of your mouth, but only if it is good for edification, so that it may give grace to those who hear.

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in Whom you are sealed for the Day of Redemption.

³¹ Let all bitterness and fury and anger, clamor and slander, be taken from you, along with all wickedness.

³² Be kind one to another, and tender-hearted, freely forgiving one another; even as God, for Christ’s sake, freely forgave you.

5 Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children.

² And walk in love, just as Christ has loved us and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet-smelling savor to God.