Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Serve Yahweh with Gladness

A Psalm of ^[a]Thanksgiving.

¹⁷ “As for you, My flock, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold, I will ^(A)judge between one ^[a]sheep and another, between the rams and the male goats. ¹⁸ Is it too ^(B)slight a thing for you that you should be shepherded in the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? Or that you should drink of the clear waters, that you must ^[b]foul the rest with your feet? ¹⁹ As for My flock, they must be shepherded on what you tread down with your feet and drink what you ^[c]foul with your feet!’”

²⁰ Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh to them, “Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. ²¹ Because you push with side and with shoulder, and ^(C)thrust at all the sickly with your horns until you have scattered them ^[d]abroad, ²² therefore, I will ^(D)save My flock, and they will no longer be plunder; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

²³ “Then I will ^(E)establish over them one ^(F)shepherd, My servant ^(G)David, and he will shepherd them; he will shepherd them himself and be their shepherd.

Shepherd the Flock of God

5 ^(A)Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your ^(B)fellow elder and ^(C)witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a ^(D)partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed, ² shepherd ^(E)the flock of God among you, overseeing ^(F)not under compulsion, but willingly, according to God; and ^(G)not for dishonest gain, but with eagerness; ³ nor yet as ^(H)lording it over ^[a]those allotted to you, but being ^(I)examples to the flock. ⁴ And when the Chief ^(J)Shepherd appears, you will receive the ^(K)unfading ^[b](L)crown of glory. ^5 (M)You younger men, likewise, ^(N)be subject to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with ^(O)humility toward one another, for ^(P)God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.