Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Thanksgiving for the Lord’s Favor.
A Psalm of David.
138 (A)I will give You thanks with all my heart;
I will sing praises to You before the (B)gods.
2 I will bow down (C)toward Your holy temple
And (D)give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your [a]truth;
For You have (E)magnified Your [b]word [c]according to all Your name.
3 On the day I (F)called, You answered me;
You made me bold with (G)strength in my soul.
4 (H)All the kings of the earth will give thanks to You, O Lord,
When they have heard the words of Your mouth.
5 And they will (I)sing of the ways of the Lord,
For (J)great is the glory of the Lord.
6 For (K)though the Lord is exalted,
Yet He (L)regards the lowly,
But the (M)haughty He knows from afar.
7 Though I (N)walk in the midst of trouble, You will [d](O)revive me;
You will (P)stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,
And Your right hand will (Q)save me.
8 The Lord will (R)accomplish what concerns me;
Your (S)lovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting;
(T)Do not forsake the (U)works of Your hands.
15 ‘Thus says the Lord God, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I (A)caused lamentations; I closed the [a]deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon [b]mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it. 16 I made the nations (B)quake at the sound of its fall when I made it (C)go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the [c]well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of (D)Lebanon, were (E)comforted in the earth beneath. 17 They also (F)went down with it to Sheol to those who were (G)slain by the sword; and those who were its [d]strength lived (H)under its shade among the nations.
18 “To which among the trees of Eden are you thus [e]equal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the (I)uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. (J)So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!”’ declares the Lord God.”
12 For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with [a]some of those who (A)commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding. 13 But we will not boast (B)beyond our measure, but [b](C)within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you. 14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for (D)we were the first to come even as far as you in the (E)gospel of Christ; 15 not boasting (F)beyond our measure, that is, in (G)other men’s labors, but with the hope that as (H)your faith grows, we will be, [c]within our sphere, (I)enlarged even more by you, 16 so as to (J)preach the gospel even to (K)the regions beyond you, and not to boast [d](L)in what has been accomplished in the sphere of another. 17 But (M)he who boasts is to boast in the Lord. 18 For it is not he who (N)commends himself that is approved, but he (O)whom the Lord commends.
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