Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹²⁹ Your testimonies are wonderful [far exceeding anything conceived by man]; therefore my [penitent] self keeps them [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them].

¹³⁰ The entrance and unfolding of Your words give light; their unfolding gives understanding (discernment and comprehension) to the simple.

¹³¹ I opened my mouth and panted [with eager desire], for I longed for Your commandments.

¹³² Look upon me, be merciful unto me, and show me favor, as is Your way to those who love Your name.

¹³³ Establish my steps and direct them by [means of] Your word; let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

¹³⁴ Deliver me from the oppression of man; so will I keep Your precepts [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them].^(A)

¹³⁵ Make Your face shine [with pleasure] upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.^(B)

¹³⁶ Streams of water run down my eyes, because men do not keep Your law [they hear it not, nor receive it, love it, or obey it].

2 When David’s time to die was near, he charged Solomon his son, saying,

² I go the way of all the earth. Be strong and show yourself a man;

³ Keep the charge of the Lord your God, walk in His ways, keep His statutes, His commandments, His precepts, and His testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may do wisely and prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,

⁴ That the Lord may fulfill His promise to me, saying, If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and mind and with all their soul, there shall not fail you [to have] a man on the throne of Israel.

³⁸ Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, Teacher, we desire to see a sign or miracle from You [proving that You are what You claim to be].

³⁹ But He replied to them, An evil and adulterous generation (a generation ^[a]morally unfaithful to God) seeks and demands a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

⁴⁰ For even as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.^(A)

⁴¹ The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, Someone more and greater than Jonah is here!^(B)

⁴² The queen of the South will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, Someone more and greater than Solomon is here.^(C)