Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm, a Song, for the Sabbath day.

92 It is good to give thanks unto Jehovah, and to sing psalms unto thy name, O Most High;

² To declare thy loving-kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness in the nights,

³ Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute; upon the Higgaion with the harp.

⁴ For thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy work; I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

⁵ Jehovah, how great are thy works! Thy thoughts are very deep:

⁶ A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.

⁷ When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

⁸ And thou, Jehovah, art on high for evermore.

⁹ For lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah, for lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

¹⁰ But my horn shalt thou exalt like a buffalo's: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

¹¹ And mine eye shall see [its desire] on mine enemies; mine ears shall hear [it] of the evil-doers that rise up against me.

¹² The righteous shall shoot forth like a palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar on Lebanon.

¹³ Those that are planted in the house of Jehovah shall flourish in the courts of our God:

¹⁴ They are still vigorous in old age, they are full of sap and green;

¹⁵ To shew that Jehovah is upright: [he is] my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

²³ The desire of the righteous is only good; the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

²⁴ There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is right, but [it tendeth] only to want.

²⁵ The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

²⁶ He that withholdeth corn, the people curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

²⁷ He that is earnest after good seeketh favour; but he that searcheth for mischief, it shall come upon him.

²⁸ He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a leaf.

²⁹ He that troubleth his own house shall inherit wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and the wise winneth souls.

¹⁰ And the disciples came up and said to him, Why speakest thou to them in parables?

¹¹ And he answering said to them, Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not given;

¹² for whoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall be caused to be in abundance; but he who has not, even what he has shall be taken away from him.

¹³ For this cause I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear nor understand;

¹⁴ and in them is filled up the prophecy of Esaias, which says, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and beholding ye shall behold and not see;

¹⁵ for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they have heard heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

¹⁶ But blessed are *your* eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear;

¹⁷ for verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous [men] have desired to see the things which ye behold and did not see [them], and to hear the things which ye hear and did not hear [them].