Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
7 “(A)Hear, O My people, and I will speak;
O Israel, I will testify [a]against you;
I am God, (B)your God.
8 I do (C)not reprove you for your sacrifices,
And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
9 I shall take no (D)young bull out of your house
Nor male goats out of your folds.
10 For (E)every beast of the forest is Mine,
The cattle on a thousand hills.
11 I know every (F)bird of the mountains,
And everything that moves in the field is [b]Mine.
12 If I were hungry I would not tell you,
For the (G)world is Mine, as well as its fullness.
13 Shall I eat the flesh of [c](H)bulls
Or drink the blood of male goats?
14 Offer to God (I)a sacrifice of thanksgiving
And (J)pay your vows to the Most High;
15 (K)Call upon Me in the day of distress;
I shall (L)rescue you, and you will (M)glorify Me.”
Zayin
7 In the days of her affliction and homelessness
(A)Jerusalem remembers all her precious things
That were from the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the adversary
And (B)no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her;
They (C)laughed at her [a]ruin.
Heth
8 Jerusalem sinned (D)greatly;
Therefore (E)she has become an impure thing.
All who honored her despise her
Because they have seen her nakedness;
Even (F)she herself sighs and turns away.
Teth
9 Her (G)uncleanness was in her skirts;
She did not remember her (H)future.
Therefore she has (I)gone down astonishingly;
(J)She has no comforter.
“(K)See, O Yahweh, my affliction,
For the enemy has (L)magnified himself!”
Yodh
10 The adversary has stretched out his hand
Over all her desirable things,
For she has seen the (M)nations enter her sanctuary,
The ones whom You commanded
That they should (N)not enter into Your assembly.
Kaph
17 These are (A)springs without water and mists driven by a storm, (B)for whom the [a]black darkness has been kept. 18 For speaking out (C)arrogant words of (D)vanity, they (E)entice by (F)sensual lusts of the flesh, those who barely (G)escape from the ones who conducted themselves in error, 19 promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for (H)by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. 20 For if they are overcome, having both (I)escaped the defilements of the world by (J)the knowledge of the (K)Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and having again been (L)entangled in them, then (M)the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 (N)For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from (O)the holy commandment (P)handed on to them. 22 The [b]message of the true proverb has happened to them, “(Q)A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”
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