Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

92 It is a good thing to praise the LORD, and to sing to Your Name, O Most High,

² to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your truth in the night,

³ upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the viol, with the song upon the harp.

⁴ For You, LORD, have made me glad by Your works; and I will rejoice in the works of Your hands.

⁵ O LORD, how glorious are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep.

⁶ An unwise man does not know it; and a fool does not understand this:

⁷ that when the wicked grow as the grass and all the workers of wickedness flourish, they shall be destroyed forever.

⁸ But You, O LORD, are Most High forevermore.

⁹ For lo, Your enemies, O LORD. For lo, Your enemies shall perish. All the workers of iniquity shall be destroyed.

¹⁰ But You shall exalt my horn, like the unicorns, and I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

¹¹ Also, my eye shall see my desire against my enemies; and my ears shall hear my wish against the wicked who rise up against me.

¹² The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree and shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³ Such as are planted in the House of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴ They shall still bring forth fruit in their old age. They shall be fat and flourishing,

¹⁵ to declare that the LORD my Rock is righteous and that no iniquity is in Him.

²³ The desire of the righteous is only good; the hope of the wicked, indignation.

²⁴ There is one who scatters and is more increased. But one who spares more than is right, surely comes to poverty.

²⁵ The liberal person shall have plenty. And he who waters, shall also have rain.

²⁶ He who withholds the corn, the people will curse. But blessing shall be upon the head of him who sells corn.

²⁷ He who seeks good things, gets favor. But he who seeks evil, it shall come to him.

²⁸ He who trusts in his riches, shall fall. But the righteous shall flourish as a leaf.

²⁹ He who troubles his own house, shall inherit the wind. And the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart.

³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is as a tree of life. And he who wins souls is wise.

¹⁰ Then the disciples came, and said to Him, “Why did You speak to them in parables?”

¹¹ And He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven. But to them it is not given.

¹² “For whoever has, to him shall be given. And he shall have abundance. But whoever does not have, even that which he has shall be taken away from him.

¹³ “Therefore, I speak to them in parables. Because they, seeing, do not see. And hearing, they do not hear, nor understand.

¹⁴ “So in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled which says, ‘By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see and shall not perceive.

¹⁵ “‘For this people’s heart has grown fat and their ears barely hear and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their hearts and should return, that I might heal them.’

¹⁶ “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

¹⁷ “For truly I say to you that many Prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them.