Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
7 For Your sake I have suffered reproach; shame has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s sons.
9 For the zeal of Your House has eaten me, and the rebukes of those who rebuked You have fallen upon me.
10 I wept and my soul fasted; but that was to my reproach.
11 I put on sackcloth also; and I became a proverb to them.
12 Those who sit in the gate speak of me; and I am the song of the drunkards.
13 But LORD, I make my prayer to You in an acceptable time, in the multitude of Your mercy. O God, hear me in the truth of Your salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, so that I do not sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
15 Do not let the flood water drown me or let the deep swallow me up; and do not let the pit shut her mouth upon me.
16 Hear me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good! Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.
17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant, for I am in trouble. Hear me quickly.
18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Deliver me because of my enemies.
12 ‘But they said desperately, “Surely we will walk after our own imaginations. And every man will follow the stubbornness of his wicked heart.”
13 ‘Therefore, thus says the LORD: “Ask now who has heard such things among the heathen. The virgin of Israel has done very filthily.
14 “Will a man forsake the snow of Lebanon, which comes from the rock of the field? Or shall the cold, flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
15 “Because My people have forgotten Me and have burnt incense to worthless idols, causing them to stumble in their ways from the ancient ways and to walk in the pathway that is not built up,
16 “and making their land desolate and a perpetual derision, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and wag his head.
17 “I will scatter them with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them My Back, and not My Face, in the day of their destruction.”
5 For He has not put the world to come (whereof we speak) in subjection to the angels.
6 But one in a certain place witnessed, saying, “What is man that You should be mindful of him; or the son of man that You would consider him?
7 “You made him a little inferior to the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor and have set him above the works of Your Hands.
8 “You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” And in that He has put all things in subjection under him, He left nothing that should not be subject to him. But we still do not see all things subjected to him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made little inferior to the angels, crowned with glory and honor through the suffering of death. That by God’s grace He might taste death for everyone.
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