Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
A Prayer of Repentance and Plea for Mercy
For the music director. A psalm of David.
When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.[a]
51 Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love.
According to your abundant mercies,
blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and from my sin cleanse me.
3 For I myself know[b] my transgressions,[c]
and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, only you, I have sinned
and have done this evil[d] in your eyes,
so that you are correct when you speak,
you are blameless when you judge.
5 Behold, in iniquity I was born,
and in sin my mother conceived me.
6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward parts,
and in the hidden parts you make me to know wisdom.
7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins,
and all my iniquities blot out.
10 Create a clean heart for me, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.[e]
11 Do not cast me away from your presence,
and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and with a willing spirit sustain me.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will turn back to you.
14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
the God of my salvation;
then my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will proclaim your praise.
16 For you do not delight in sacrifice or I would give it.
With a burnt offering you are not pleased.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
A broken and contrite heart,
O God, you will not despise.
18 Do good in your favor toward Zion.
Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then you will delight in righteous sacrifices,
burnt offering and whole burnt offering.
Then bulls will be offered on your altar.
58 “If you do not diligently observe[a] all the words of this law written in this scroll by revering this glorious and awesome name, Yahweh your God, 59 then Yahweh shall overwhelm you with your plagues and the plagues of your offspring, severe plagues and lasting illnesses, grievous and enduring. 60 And he shall bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt concerning which you were in dread[b] because of them.[c] 61 Also any illness and any plague[d] that is not written in the scroll of this law, he shall bring them, Yahweh, upon you until you are destroyed. 62 And you shall remain only a few people[e] in place of the fact you were formerly as the stars of heaven as far as number is concerned, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. 63 And then[f] as Yahweh delighted over you to make you prosperous[g] to make you numerous, so Yahweh shall delight over you to exterminate you[h] and to destroy you, and so you shall be plucked from the land that you are going there to take possession of it. 64 And Yahweh shall scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth up to the other end of the earth, and there you shall serve other gods that you have not known nor[i] your ancestors,[j] gods of wood and stone. 65 And among these nations you shall not find rest, and there shall not be a resting place for the sole of your foot, and Yahweh shall give you there an anxious heart and a weakening of eyes[k] and a languishing of your inner self.[l] 66 And your life shall hang in doubt before you,[m] and you shall be startled[n] night and day, and you shall not be confident of your life. 67 In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it was evening!’[o] and in the evening you shall say ‘If only it was morning!’[p] because of the dread of your heart that you shall feel, and because of the sight of your eyes that you shall see. 68 And Yahweh shall bring you back to Egypt in ships by the route that I promised[q] to you that ‘You shall not see it again!’[r] And you shall sell yourself there to your enemies as slaves and as female slaves, but there will not be a buyer.”
Covenant Renewal, Oaths, Restoration, Charges to the Nation
29 [s] These are the words of the covenant that Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the Israelites[t] in the land of Moab besides[u] the covenant that he made with them at Horeb.
17 “But as the time of the promise that God had made to Abraham was drawing near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt 18 until another king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. 19 This man deceitfully took advantage of our[a] people and[b] mistreated our ancestors, causing them to abandon their infants[c] so that they would not be kept alive. 20 At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. He[d] was brought up for three months in his[e] father’s house, 21 and when[f] he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and brought him up as her own son.[g] 22 And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in his words and deeds.
23 “But when he was forty years old,[h] it entered in his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel. 24 And when he[i] saw one of them being unjustly harmed, he defended him[j] and avenged[k] the one who had been oppressed by[l] striking down the Egyptian. 25 And he thought his[m] brothers would understand that God was granting deliverance to them by his hand, but they did not understand. 26 And on the following day, he made an appearance to them while they[n] were fighting and was attempting to reconcile[o] them in peace, saying, ‘Men and brothers, why are you doing wrong to one another?’ 27 But the one who was doing wrong to his[p] neighbor pushed him aside, saying, ‘Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? 28 You do not want to do away with me the same way[q] you did away with the Egyptian yesterday, do you?’[r] 29 And at this statement, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
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