Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁶ Sacrifice and offering You did not desire (my ears You have prepared). Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

⁷ Then I said, “Lo, I come. In the roll of the Book it is written of me.

⁸ “I desired to do Your good will, O my God. Indeed, Your Law is within my heart.”

⁹ I have declared righteousness in the great congregation. Lo, I will not refrain my lips. O LORD, You know.

¹⁰ I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart. I have declared Your truth and Your salvation. I have not concealed Your mercy and Your truth from the great Congregation.

¹¹ Do not withdraw Your tender mercy from me, O LORD. Let Your mercy and Your truth always preserve me.

¹² For innumerable troubles have surrounded me. My sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up. They are more in number than the hairs of my head. Therefore, my heart has failed me.

¹³ Let it please You, O LORD, to deliver me. Hurry, O LORD, to help me.

¹⁴ Let those who seek my soul to destroy it be confounded and put to shame together. Let those who desire my hurt be driven backward and put to rebuke.

¹⁵ Let those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!” be destroyed as a reward for their shame,

¹⁶ Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You, and let those who love Your salvation, say always, “The LORD be praised!”

¹⁷ Though I be poor and needy, the LORD thinks on me. You are my Helper and my Deliverer. My God, do not delay. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.

¹² “Hear me, O Jacob and Israel, My called. I Am, I Am the First, and I Am the Last.

¹³ “Surely My Hand has laid the foundation of the Earth. And My right Hand has spanned the heavens. When I call them, they stand up together.

¹⁴ “All you, assemble yourselves and hear. Who among them has declared these things? The LORD has loved him. He will do His will in Babel, and His Arm shall be against the Chaldeans.

¹⁵ “I, even I, have spoken it. And I have called him. I have brought him. And his way shall prosper.

¹⁶ “Come near to Me. Hear this! I have not spoken it in secret from the beginning. From the time that the thing was, I was there, and now the Lord God and His Spirit have sent Me!”

¹⁷ Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, and leads you by the way that you should go.

¹⁸ “Oh, that you had listened to My Commandments! Then your peace would have been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea.

¹⁹ “Also, your seed would have been as the sand, and the fruit of your body like its gravel. His name would not have been cut off or destroyed before Me.

²⁰ “Go out from Babel. Flee from the Chaldeans with a voice of joy! Tell and declare this. Show it forth to the end of the Earth. Say, ‘The LORD has redeemed His servant, Jacob!

²¹ ‘And they were not thirsty! He led them through the wilderness! He caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them! For He split the rock and the water gushed out!’

¹⁴ Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”

¹⁵ And Jesus said to them, “Can the children of the marriage chamber lament as long as the Bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the Bridegroom shall be taken from them. And then they shall fast.

¹⁶ “Moreover, no one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. For that which patches it pulls away from the garment, and the breach is worsened.

¹⁷ “Nor do they put new wine into old vessels. For then the vessels would break, and the wine would be spilled. And the vessels would perish. But they put new wine into new vessels. And so, both are preserved.”