Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

40 I waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined to me and heard my cry.

² Also, He brought me out of the horrible pit—out of the miry clay—and set my feet upon the rock and ordered my goings.

³ And He has put in my mouth a new song of praise to our God. Many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the LORD.

⁴ Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not regard the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

⁵ You have made many, O LORD my God, Your wonderful works; so that no one can count to You, in order, Your thoughts toward us. I would declare and speak of them, but they are more than I am able to express.

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.”

14 Samaria shall be desolate. For she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces. And their women with child shall be ripped open.

² O Israel, return to the LORD your God! For you have fallen by your iniquity!

³ Take words with you and turn to the LORD, and say to Him, “Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously. So will we render the calves of our lips.

⁴ “Assyria shall not save us. Nor will we ride upon horses. Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’ For in You the fatherless finds mercy.”

⁵ “I will heal their rebellion. I will love them freely. For My anger has turned away from him.

⁶ “I will be as the dew to Israel. He shall grow as the lily and fasten his roots as the trees of Lebanon.

⁷ “His branches shall spread. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree and his smell as Lebanon.

⁸ “Those who dwell under his shadow shall return. They shall revive as grain and flourish as the vine. Their scent shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

⁹ “Ephraim shall say, ‘What have I to do anymore with idols?’ I shall hear him and look upon him. I am like a green fir tree. Upon Me your fruit is found.

¹⁰ “Who is wise and shall understand these things, prudent and shall know them? For the ways of the LORD are righteous and the just shall walk in them. But the wicked shall fall therein.”

12 At that time, Jesus went through the corn on a Sabbath day. And His disciples were hungry and began to pluck the ears of corn and eat.

² And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Behold, Your disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath!”

³ But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry?

⁴ “How he went into the house of God, and ate the showbread (which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests)?

⁵ “Or have you not read in the Law how that, on the Sabbath days, the priests in the Temple break the Sabbath and are blameless?

⁶ “But I say to you that here is One greater than the Temple.

⁷ “Therefore, if you knew what this meant, ‘I will have mercy and not sacrifice’, you would not have condemned the innocents.

⁸ “For the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”