Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
7 Restore us, O God of hosts;
Cause Your face to shine,
And we shall be saved!
8 You have brought (A)a vine out of Egypt;
(B)You have cast out the [a]nations, and planted it.
9 You prepared room for it,
And caused it to take deep root,
And it filled the land.
10 The hills were covered with its shadow,
And the [b]mighty cedars with its (C)boughs.
11 She sent out her boughs to [c]the Sea,
And her branches to [d]the River.
14 “Is Israel (A)a servant?
Is he a homeborn slave?
Why is he plundered?
15 (B)The young lions roared at him, and growled;
They made his land waste;
His cities are burned, without inhabitant.
16 Also the people of [a]Noph and (C)Tahpanhes
Have [b]broken the crown of your head.
17 (D)Have you not brought this on yourself,
In that you have forsaken the Lord your God
When (E)He led you in the way?
18 And now why take (F)the road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of (G)Sihor?
Or why take the road to (H)Assyria,
To drink the waters of [c]the River?
19 Your own wickedness will (I)correct you,
And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the Lord your God,
And the [d]fear of Me is not in you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts.
20 “For of old I have (J)broken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And (K)you said, ‘I will not [e]transgress,’
When (L)on every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, (M)playing the harlot.
21 Yet I had (N)planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into (O)the degenerate plant of an alien vine?
22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is (P)marked[f] before Me,” says the Lord God.
16 So let no one (A)judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a [a]festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 (B)which are a shadow of things to come, but the [b]substance is of Christ. 18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has [c]not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 and not holding fast to (C)the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, (D)grows with the increase that is from God.
20 [d]Therefore, if you (E)died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, (F)why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations— 21 (G)“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” 22 which all concern things which perish with the using—(H)according to the commandments and doctrines of men? 23 (I)These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and [e]neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.