Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

58 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

² Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that doeth righteousness, and hath not forsaken the ordinance of their God; they ask of me the ordinances of righteousness, they take delight in approaching to God:

³ —Wherefore have we fasted, and thou seest not; have afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find what pleaseth [you], and exact all your labours.

⁴ Behold, ye have fasted for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; ye do not at present fast, to cause your voice to be heard on high.

⁵ Is such the fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul,—that he should bow down his head as a bulrush, and spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? Wilt thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to Jehovah?

⁶ Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?

⁷ Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring to thy house the needy wanderers; when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

⁸ Then shall thy light break forth as the dawn, and thy health shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee, the glory of Jehovah shall be thy rearguard.

⁹ Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger and the unjust speech,

⁹ Then shalt thou call, and Jehovah will answer; thou shalt cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger and the unjust speech,

¹⁰ and thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in the darkness, and thine obscurity be as midday;

¹¹ and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and strengthen thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a water-spring, whose waters deceive not.

¹² And they [that come] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations [that have remained] from generation to generation; and thou shalt be called, Repairer of the breaches, restorer of frequented paths.

112 Hallelujah! Blessed is the man that feareth Jehovah, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

² His seed shall be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

³ Wealth and riches [shall be] in his house; and his righteousness abideth for ever.

⁴ Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness; he is gracious, and merciful, and righteous.

⁵ It is well with the man that is gracious and lendeth; he will sustain his cause in judgment.

⁶ For he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

⁷ He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is fixed confiding in Jehovah;

⁸ His heart is maintained, he is not afraid, until he see [his desire] upon his oppressors.

⁹ He scattereth abroad, he giveth to the needy; his righteousness abideth for ever: his horn shall be exalted with honour.

¹⁰ The wicked [man] shall see [it] and be vexed; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

2 And *I*, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

² For I did not judge [it well] to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and *him* crucified.

³ And *I* was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;

⁴ and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of [the] Spirit and of power;

⁵ that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power.

⁶ But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.

⁷ But we speak God's wisdom in [a] mystery, that hidden [wisdom] which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory:

⁸ which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;)

⁹ but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

¹⁰ but God has revealed to us by [his] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

¹¹ For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.

¹² But *we* have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which [is] of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

¹³ which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual [things] by spiritual [means].

¹⁴ But [the] natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually discerned;

¹⁵ but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is discerned of no one.

¹⁶ For who has known the mind of [the] Lord, who shall instruct him? But *we* have the mind of Christ.

¹³ *Ye* are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have become insipid, wherewith shall it be salted? It is no longer fit for anything but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot by men.

¹⁴ *Ye* are the light of the world: a city situated on the top of a mountain cannot be hid.

¹⁵ Nor do [men] light a lamp and put it under the bushel, but upon the lamp-stand, and it shines for all who are in the house.

¹⁶ Let your light thus shine before men, so that they may see your upright works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

¹⁷ Think not that I am come to make void the law or the prophets; I am not come to make void, but to fulfil.

¹⁸ For verily I say unto you, Until the heaven and the earth pass away, one iota or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all come to pass.

¹⁹ Whosoever then shall do away with one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whosoever shall practise and teach [them], *he* shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.

²⁰ For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass [that] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of the heavens.