Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Psalm 6[a]
For the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith.[b] A psalm of David.
1 Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger(A)
or discipline me in your wrath.
2 Have mercy on me,(B) Lord, for I am faint;(C)
heal me,(D) Lord, for my bones are in agony.(E)
3 My soul is in deep anguish.(F)
How long,(G) Lord, how long?
4 Turn,(H) Lord, and deliver me;
save me because of your unfailing love.(I)
5 Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
Who praises you from the grave?(J)
16 “And now my life ebbs away;(A)
days of suffering grip me.(B)
17 Night pierces my bones;
my gnawing pains never rest.(C)
18 In his great power(D) God becomes like clothing to me[a];
he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19 He throws me into the mud,(E)
and I am reduced to dust and ashes.(F)
20 “I cry out to you,(G) God, but you do not answer;(H)
I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 You turn on me ruthlessly;(I)
with the might of your hand(J) you attack me.(K)
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;(L)
you toss me about in the storm.(M)
23 I know you will bring me down to death,(N)
to the place appointed for all the living.(O)
24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(P)
when he cries for help in his distress.(Q)
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?(R)
Has not my soul grieved for the poor?(S)
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, then came darkness.(T)
27 The churning inside me never stops;(U)
days of suffering confront me.(V)
28 I go about blackened,(W) but not by the sun;
I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.(X)
29 I have become a brother of jackals,(Y)
a companion of owls.(Z)
30 My skin grows black(AA) and peels;(AB)
my body burns with fever.(AC)
31 My lyre is tuned to mourning,(AD)
and my pipe(AE) to the sound of wailing.
46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine.(A) And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,(B) he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.
48 “Unless you people see signs and wonders,”(C) Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”
49 The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50 “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”
The man took Jesus at his word and departed. 51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”
53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household(D) believed.
54 This was the second sign(E) Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.
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