Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Psalm 6

To the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, set [possibly] an octave below. A Psalm of David.

¹ O Lord, rebuke me not in Your anger nor discipline and chasten me in Your hot displeasure.

² Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am weak (faint and withered away); O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

³ My [inner] self [as well as my body] is also exceedingly disturbed and troubled. But You, O Lord, how long [until You return and speak peace to me]?

⁴ Return [to my relief], O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of Your steadfast love and mercy.

⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of You; in Sheol (the place of the dead) who will give You thanks?

⁶ I am weary with my groaning; all night I soak my pillow with tears, I drench my couch with my weeping.

⁷ My eye grows dim because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.

⁸ Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.^(A)

⁹ The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord receives my prayer.

¹⁰ Let all my enemies be ashamed and sorely troubled; let them turn back and be put to shame suddenly.

¹⁶ And now my life is poured out within me; the days of affliction have gripped me.

¹⁷ My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

¹⁸ By the great force [of my disease] my garment is disguised and disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my coat.

¹⁹ [God] has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

²⁰ I cry to You, [Lord,] and You do not answer me; I stand up, but You [only] gaze [indifferently] at me.

²¹ You have become harsh and cruel to me; with the might of Your hand You [keep me alive only to] persecute me.

²² You lift me up on the wind; You cause me to ride upon it, and You toss me about in the tempest.

²³ For I know that You will bring me to death and to the house [of meeting] appointed for all the living.

²⁴ However, does not one falling in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand? Or in his calamity will he not therefore cry for help?

²⁵ Did not I weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my heart grieved for the poor and needy?

²⁶ But when I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

²⁷ My heart is troubled and does not rest; days of affliction come to meet me.

²⁸ I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the congregation and cry for help.

²⁹ I am a brother to jackals [which howl], and a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].

³⁰ My skin falls from me in blackened flakes, and my bones are burned with heat.

³¹ Therefore my lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

⁴⁶ So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was lying ill in Capernaum.

⁴⁷ Having heard that Jesus had come back from Judea into Galilee, he went away to meet Him and began to beg Him to come down and cure his son, for he was lying at the point of death.

⁴⁸ Then Jesus said to him, Unless you see signs and miracles happen, you [people] never will believe (trust, have faith) at all.

⁴⁹ The king’s officer pleaded with Him, Sir, do come down at once before my little child is dead!

⁵⁰ Jesus answered him, Go in peace; your son will live! And the man put his trust in what Jesus said and started home.

⁵¹ But even as he was on the road going down, his servants met him and reported, saying, Your son lives!

⁵² So he asked them at what time he had begun to get better. They said, Yesterday during the seventh hour (about one o’clock in the afternoon) the fever left him.

⁵³ Then the father knew that it was at that very hour when Jesus had said to him, Your son will live. And he and his entire household believed (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Jesus).

⁵⁴ This is the second sign (wonderwork, miracle) that Jesus performed after He had come out of Judea into Galilee.