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Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with thematically matched Old and New Testament readings.
Duration: 1245 days
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
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Psalm 38

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

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

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

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

My wounds are foul and corrupt because of my foolishness.

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

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

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

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!

Lamentations 5

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us; consider, and behold our reproach.

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

We have paid money for water we drink; our wood is sold unto us.

Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.

We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be provided with bread.

Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; and we have borne their iniquities.

Servants have ruled over us; there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

We got our bread with the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honored.

13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head. Woe unto us that we have sinned!

17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

18 Because of the mountain of Zion which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

19 Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever, Thy throne from generation to generation.

20 Why dost Thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long a time?

21 Turn Thou us unto Thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned! Renew our days as of old!—

22 But Thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us.

John 5:19-29

19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, “Verily, verily I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do; for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

20 For the Father loveth the Son and showeth Him all things that He Himself doeth; and He will show Him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom He will.

22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son,

23 that all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father who hath sent Him.

24 Verily, verily I say unto you, he that heareth My Word and believeth in Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.

25 “Verily, verily I say unto you, the hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.

26 For as the Father hath life in Himself, so hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself,

27 and hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.

28 Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice

29 and shall come forth — they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.