Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹¹ Teach me Your way, O LORD, and I will walk in Your truth. Knit my heart to You, so that I may fear Your Name.

¹² I will praise You, O LORD my God, with all my heart. Indeed, I will glorify Your Name forever.

¹³ For great is Your mercy toward me; and You have delivered my soul from the lowest grave.

¹⁴ O God, the proud have risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought my soul and have not set You before them.

¹⁵ But You, O LORD, are a pitying God, and merciful, slow to anger and great in kindness and truth.

¹⁶ Turn to me and have mercy upon me. Give Your strength to Your servant and save the son of Your handmaid.

¹⁷ Show a sign of goodness toward me, so that those who hate me may see it and be ashamed; because You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me. A Psalm, or song, committed to the sons of Korah

²¹ “‘Stand to your cause,’ says the LORD, ‘Bring forth your strong reasons,’ says the King of Jacob.

²² “Let them bring them forth. And let them tell us what shall come. Let them show the former things, what they were, so that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them. Or declare to us things to come.

²³ “Show the things that are to come hereafter, so that we may know that you are gods. Yea, do good or do evil, so that we may see it and look away together.

²⁴ “Behold, you are of no value. And you are made nothing, having chosen an abomination by them.

²⁵ “I have raised up from the North, and he shall come. From the East Sun shall he call upon My Name, and shall come upon princes as upon clay, and as the potter treads mire underfoot.

²⁶ “Who has declared from the beginning, so that we may know, or before time, so that we may say, ‘He is righteous’? Surely there is no one who shows. Surely there is no one who declares. Surely there is no one who hears your words.

²⁷ “I am the First, Who says to Zion, ‘Look! Look at them!’ And I will give to Jerusalem one who shall bring good tidings.

²⁸ “But when I looked, there was no one. And when I inquired of them, there was no counselor. And when I demanded of them, they did not answer a word.

²⁹ “Behold, they are all wickedness. Their work is nothing. Their images are wind and confusion.”

2 Therefore we ought to diligently pay attention to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we drift away.

² For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense,

³ how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation (which at first began to be preached by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him;

⁴ God bearing witness to it both with signs and wonders, and with diverse miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to His own will)?

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.