Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
6 (A)In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted,
but you have given me an open (B)ear.[a]
Burnt offering and sin offering
you have not required.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come;
in the scroll of the book it is written (C)of me:
8 (D)I delight to do your will, O my God;
your law is (E)within my heart.”
9 I have told the glad news of deliverance[b]
in (F)the great congregation;
behold, I have not (G)restrained my lips,
(H)as you know, O Lord.
10 I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart;
I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;
I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness
from the great congregation.
11 As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain
your mercy from me;
your (I)steadfast love and your faithfulness will
ever preserve me!
12 For evils have (J)encompassed me
beyond number;
my (K)iniquities have overtaken me,
and I cannot (L)see;
they are (M)more than the hairs of my head;
my heart (N)fails me.
13 (O)Be pleased, O Lord, to (P)deliver me!
O Lord, (Q)make haste to help me!
14 (R)Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether
who seek to snatch away my life;
let those be (S)turned back and brought to dishonor
who delight in my hurt!
15 Let those be appalled because of their shame
who (T)say to me, “Aha, Aha!”
The Lord's Call to Israel
12 “Listen to me, O Jacob,
and Israel, whom I called!
I am he; (A)I am the first,
and I am the last.
13 My hand (B)laid the foundation of the earth,
and my right hand (C)spread out the heavens;
(D)when I call to them,
they stand forth together.
14 “Assemble, all of you, and listen!
(E)Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him;
(F)he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,
and his arm shall be against (G)the Chaldeans.
15 (H)I, even I, have spoken and called him;
I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
16 (I)Draw near to me, hear this:
from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,
from the time it came to be I have been there.”
And now (J)the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.
17 Thus says the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
who teaches you to profit,
who leads you in the way you should go.
18 (K)Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
(L)Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
19 (M)your offspring would have been like the sand,
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me.”
20 (N)Go out from Babylon, flee from (O)Chaldea,
declare this (P)with a shout of joy, proclaim it,
send it out to the end of the earth;
say, (Q)“The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
21 (R)They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;
(S)he made water flow for them from the rock;
he split the rock and the water gushed out.
A Question About Fasting
14 Then (A)the disciples of John came to him, saying, (B)“Why do we and (C)the Pharisees fast,[a] but your disciples do not fast?” 15 And Jesus said to them, (D)“Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? (E)The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and (F)then they will fast. 16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. 17 Neither is new wine put into old (G)wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.