Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. Upon Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.

5 Give ear to my words, O Jehovah; consider my meditation.

² Hearken unto the voice of my crying, my king and my God; for to thee will I pray.

³ Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; in the morning will I address myself to thee, and will look up.

⁴ For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with thee.

⁵ Insolent fools shall not stand before thine eyes; thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

⁶ Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth a man of blood and deceit.

⁷ But as for me, in the greatness of thy loving-kindness will I enter thy house; I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness in thy fear.

⁸ Lead me, Jehovah, in thy righteousness, because of my foes; make thy way plain before me.

⁹ For there is no certainty in their mouth; their inward part is perversion, their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

¹⁰ Bring guilt upon them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels: drive them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against thee.

¹¹ And all that trust in thee shall rejoice: for ever shall they shout joyously, and thou wilt protect them; and they that love thy name shall exult in thee.

¹² For thou, Jehovah, wilt bless the righteous [man]; with favour wilt thou surround him as [with] a shield.

56 Thus saith Jehovah: Keep ye judgment and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

² Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fast to it; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

³ And let not the son of the alien, that hath joined himself to Jehovah, speak saying, Jehovah hath entirely separated me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree;

⁴ for thus saith Jehovah: Unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,

⁵ even unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

⁶ Also the sons of the alien, that join themselves to Jehovah, to minister unto him and to love the name of Jehovah, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast to my covenant;

⁷ even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar: for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.

⁸ The Lord Jehovah, who gathereth the outcasts of Israel, saith: Yet will I gather [others] to him, with those of his that are gathered.

²⁴ And he rose up and went away thence into the borders of Tyre and Sidon; and having entered into a house he would not have any one know [it], and he could not be hid.

²⁵ But immediately a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell at his feet

²⁶ (and the woman was a Greek, Syrophenician by race), and asked him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

²⁷ But [Jesus] said to her, Suffer the children to be first filled; for it is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.

²⁸ But she answered and says to him, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

²⁹ And he said to her, Because of this word, go thy way, the demon is gone out of thy daughter.

³⁰ And having gone away to her house she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed.