Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Psalm 138

A Thankful Heart

Davidic.

³³ “This is what the Lord God says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruins will be rebuilt.^{(A) 34} The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by. ³⁵ Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden.^(B) The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’ ³⁶ Then the nations that remain around you will know that I, Yahweh, have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken and I will do it.^(C)

³⁷ “This is what the Lord God says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them:^(D) I will multiply them in number like a flock.^{[a] 38} So the ruined cities will be filled with a flock of people, just as the flock of sheep for sacrifice^(E) is filled^[b] in Jerusalem during its appointed festivals. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

⁵ The disciples reached the other shore,^[a] and they had forgotten to take bread.

⁶ Then Jesus told them, “Watch out and beware of the yeast^[b] of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”^(A)

⁷ And they discussed among themselves, “We didn’t bring any bread.”

⁸ Aware of this, Jesus said, “You of little faith!^(B) Why are you discussing among yourselves that you do not have bread? ⁹ Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected? ¹⁰ Or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many large baskets you collected?^{(C) 11} Why is it you don’t understand that when I told you, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,’ it wasn’t about bread?”^{(D) 12} Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the yeast in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.^(E)