Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
11 When I made (A)sackcloth my clothing,
I became (B)a byword to them.
12 I am the talk of those who (C)sit in the gate,
and the drunkards make (D)songs about me.
13 But as for me, my (E)prayer is to you, O Lord.
At (F)an acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
14 Deliver me
from sinking in (G)the mire;
(H)let me be delivered from my enemies
and from (I)the deep waters.
15 Let not the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or (J)the pit close (K)its mouth over me.
12 “But they say, (A)‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to (B)the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
13 “Therefore thus says the Lord:
(C)Ask among the nations,
Who has heard the like of this?
The virgin Israel
has done (D)a very horrible thing.
14 Does the snow of Lebanon leave
the crags of Sirion?[a]
Do the mountain waters run dry,[b]
the cold flowing streams?
15 (E)But my people have forgotten me;
they make offerings to (F)false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
(G)in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
(H)not the highway,
16 making their land (I)a horror,
a thing (J)to be hissed at forever.
(K)Everyone who passes by it is horrified
(L)and shakes his head.
17 (M)Like the east wind (N)I will scatter them
before the enemy.
(O)I will show them my back, not my face,
in the day of their calamity.”
The Founder of Salvation
5 For it was not to angels that God subjected the world (A)to come, of which we are speaking. 6 It has been testified somewhere,
(B)“What is man, that you are mindful of him,
or the son of man, that you care for him?
7 You made him for a little while lower than the angels;
you have crowned him with glory and honor,[a]
8 putting everything in subjection under his feet.”
Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, (C)we do not yet see everything in subjection to him. 9 But we see him (D)who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, (E)crowned with glory and honor (F)because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might (G)taste death (H)for everyone.
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.