Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

31 In You, O LORD, have I put my trust. Let me never be confounded. Deliver me in Your righteousness.

² Bow down Your ear to me. Make haste to deliver me. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

³ For You are my rock and my fortress. Therefore, direct me and guide me for Your Name’s sake.

⁴ Draw me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me. For You are my strength.

⁵ Into Your hand I commend My spirit. For You have redeemed me, O LORD God of Truth.

¹⁹ How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You; and done to those who trust in You before the sons of men!

²⁰ You hide them from the pride of men in the secret place of Your presence. You keep them secretly in Your Tabernacle from the strife of tongues.

²¹ Blessed be the LORD. For He has shown His marvelous kindness toward me in a strong city.

²² Though I said in my haste, “I am cast out of Your sight!” Still, You heard the voice of my prayer when I cried to You.

²³ Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful and abundantly repays the proud.

²⁴ All you who trust in the LORD, be strong; and He shall establish your heart. A Psalm of David, to give instruction.

⁶ “Thus says the LORD: ‘For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn to it. Because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for shoes.

⁷ ‘They gape over the head of the poor, in the dust of the Earth, and pervert the ways of the meek. And a man and his father will go in to a maid, to dishonor My Holy Name.

⁸ ‘And they lie down by every altar, upon pledged clothes. And they drink the wine of the condemned in the House of their God.

⁹ ‘Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them. Whose height was like the height of the cedars. And he was strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his root from beneath.

¹⁰ ‘Also, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

¹¹ ‘And I raised up of your sons for Prophets, and your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even so, O children of Israel,’ says the LORD?

7 “Judge not, that you be not judged.

² “For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged. And with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you again.

³ “And why do you see the splinter that is in your brother’s eye, and not perceive the beam that is in your own eye?

⁴ “Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me cast out the splinter from your eye’, and behold a beam is in your own eye?

⁵ “Hypocrite! First, cast out that beam from your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to cast out the splinter from your brother’s eye.

⁶ “Do not give that which is holy to dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they tread them under their feet. And, turning again, all attack you!