Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

PE

¹²⁹ Your Testimonies are wonderful. Therefore, my soul keeps them.

¹³⁰ The entrance into Your Words shows light and gives understanding to the simple.

¹³¹ I opened my mouth and panted, because I loved Your Commandments.

¹³² Look upon me and be merciful to me, as you used to do to those who love Your Name.

¹³³ Direct my steps in Your Word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me.

¹³⁴ Deliver me from the oppression of men, and I will keep Your Precepts.

¹³⁵ Show the light of Your Countenance upon Your servant; and teach me Your Statutes.

¹³⁶ My eyes gush out with rivers of water because they do not keep Your Law.

2 Then the days of David drew near, that he should die. And he charged Solomon, his son, saying,

² “I go the way of all the Earth. Be strong, therefore, and show yourself to be a man,

³ “and keep the charge of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and keep His Statutes and His Commandments and His Judgments and His Testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all that you do, and in everything to which you turn,

⁴ “so that the LORD may confirm His Word which He spoke to me, saying, ‘If your sons guard their way, so that they walk before Me in truth, with all their hearts and with all their souls, you shall not (said He) lack one of yours upon the throne of Israel.’

³⁸ Then answered some of the scribes and Pharisees, saying, “Master, we wish to see a sign from You.”

³⁹ But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. But no sign shall be given to it, except the sign of the Prophet Jonah.

⁴⁰ “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth.

⁴¹ “The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and condemn it. For they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold, a Greater than Jonah is here.

⁴² “The Queen of the South shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it. For she came from the utmost parts of the Earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, a Greater than Solomon is here.