Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

38 O Lord, rebuke me not in Thy wrath, neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure!

² For Thine arrows stick fast in me, and Thy hand presseth me sorely.

³ There is no soundness in my flesh, because of Thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones, because of my sin.

⁴ For mine iniquities have gone over mine head; as a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

⁵ My wounds are foul and corrupt because of my foolishness.

⁶ I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

⁷ For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

⁸ I am feeble and sorely broken; I have groaned because of the disquiet of my heart.

⁹ Lord, all my desires are known to Thee; and my groaning is not hidden from Thee.

¹⁰ My heart panteth, my strength faileth me; as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

¹¹ My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

¹² They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and devise deceits all the day long.

¹³ But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

¹⁴ Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

¹⁵ For in Thee, O Lord, do I hope; Thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

¹⁶ For I said, “Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me; when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.”

¹⁷ For I am ready for halting, and my sorrow is continually before me.

¹⁸ For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

¹⁹ But mine enemies are alive and they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

²⁰ They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries, because I follow the thing that is good.

²¹ Forsake me not, O Lord; O my God, be not far from me!

²² Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!

4 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains; and it shall be exalted above the hills, and people shall flow unto it.

² And many nations shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob. And He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths.” For the law shall go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

³ And He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

⁴ But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.

⁵ For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.

⁶ “In that day,” saith the Lord, “will I assemble her that is halt, and I will gather her that is driven out and her that I have afflicted.

⁷ And I will make her that is halt a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation; and the Lord shall reign over them in Mount Zion from hence forth, even for ever.

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

² Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort,

⁴ who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁵ For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

⁶ And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

⁷ And our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

⁸ For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed beyond measure, beyond strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life.

⁹ But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raiseth the dead,

¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver us, in whom we trust that He will yet deliver us.

¹¹ Ye also helped by praying together for us, so that for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.