Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹¹ Teach me thy way, Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

¹² I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart; and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

¹³ For great is thy loving-kindness toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

¹⁴ O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assembly of the violent seek after my soul, and they have not set thee before them.

¹⁵ But thou, Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth.

¹⁶ Turn toward me, and be gracious unto me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

¹⁷ Shew me a token for good, that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed; for thou, Jehovah, hast helped me and comforted me.

²¹ Produce your cause, saith Jehovah; bring forward your arguments, saith the King of Jacob.

²² Let them bring them forward, and declare to us what shall happen: shew the former things, what they are, that we may give attention to them, and know the end of them;—or let us hear things to come:

²³ declare the things that are to happen hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods; yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be astonished, and behold it together.

²⁴ Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. …

²⁵ I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come,—from the rising of the sun, he who will call upon my name; and he shall come upon princes as on mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.

²⁶ Who hath declared [it] from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, [It is] right? Indeed, there is none that declareth; no, none that sheweth; no, none that heareth your words.

²⁷ The first, [I said] to Zion, Behold, behold them! and to Jerusalem, I will give one that bringeth glad tidings.

²⁸ And I beheld, and there was no man; even among them,—and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

²⁹ Behold, they are all vanity, their works are nought, their molten images are wind and emptiness.

2 For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things [we have] heard, lest in any way we should slip away.

² For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,

³ how shall *we* escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken [of] by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;

⁴ God bearing, besides, witness with [them] to [it], both by signs and wonders, and various acts of power, and distributions of [the] Holy Spirit, according to his will?

⁵ For he has not subjected to angels the habitable world which is to come, of which we speak;

⁶ but one has testified somewhere, saying, What is man, that thou rememberest him, or son of man that thou visitest him?

⁷ Thou hast made him some little inferior to the angels; thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, [and hast set him over the works of thy hands;]

⁸ thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to him, he has left nothing unsubject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to *him*,

⁹ but we see Jesus, who [was] made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.