Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

89 I will sing the mercies of the LORD forever. With my mouth I will declare Your truth from generation to generation.

² For I said, “Mercy shall be set up forever. Your truth shall You establish in the very heavens.

³ “I have made a covenant with My Chosen. I have sworn to David My servant,

⁴ “‘Your Seed will I establish forever and set up your Throne from generation to generation.’” Selah.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people who can rejoice in You. They shall walk in the light of Your countenance, O LORD.

¹⁶ They shall rejoice continually in Your Name; and in Your righteousness they shall exalt themselves.

¹⁷ For You are the glory of their strength; and by Your favor our horns shall be exalted.

¹⁸ For our shield belongs to the LORD, and our King to the Holy One of Israel.

28 And that same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah, the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the House of the LORD, in the presence of the priests, and of all the people, and said,

² “Thus speaks the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babel.

³ ‘Within two years’ time, I will bring into this place all the vessels of the LORD’s House which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, took away from this place and carried into Babel.

⁴ ‘And I will bring back to this place Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all those who were carried away captive from Judah, and went into Babel,’ says the LORD. ‘For I will break the yoke of the king of Babel.’”

17 Then He said to His disciples, “It is impossible for stumbling blocks not to come. But, but woe to him by whom they come.

² “It would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

³ “Pay attention to yourselves. If your brother trespasses against you, rebuke him. And if he repents, forgive him.

⁴ “And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turns again to you, saying, ‘I repent’, you shall forgive him.”