Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Psalm 68[a]
For the music director, by David, a psalm, a song.
68 God springs into action.[b]
His enemies scatter;
his adversaries[c] run from him.[d]
2 As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away.[e]
As wax melts before fire,
so the wicked are destroyed before God.
3 But the godly[f] are happy;
they rejoice before God
and are overcome with joy.[g]
4 Sing to God! Sing praises to his name.
Exalt the one who rides on the clouds.[h]
For the Lord is his name.[i]
Rejoice before him.
5 He is a father to the fatherless
and an advocate for widows.[j]
God rules from his holy dwelling place.[k]
6 God settles in their own homes those who have been deserted;[l]
he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity.[m]
But sinful rebels live in the desert.[n]
7 O God, when you lead your people into battle,[o]
when you march through the wastelands,[p] (Selah)
8 the earth shakes.
Yes, the heavens pour down rain
before God, the God of Sinai,[q]
before God, the God of Israel.[r]
9 O God, you cause abundant showers to fall[s] on your chosen people.[t]
When they[u] are tired, you sustain them,[v]
10 for you live among them.[w]
You sustain the oppressed with your good blessings, O God.
A Foolish Vow Spells Death for a Daughter
29 The Lord’s Spirit empowered[a] Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh and went[b] to Mizpah in Gilead. From there he approached the Ammonites.[c] 30 Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, saying, “If you really do hand the Ammonites over to me, 31 then whoever is the first to come through[d] the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from fighting the Ammonites—he[e] will belong to the Lord and[f] I will offer him up as a burnt sacrifice.” 32 Jephthah approached[g] the Ammonites to fight with them, and the Lord handed them over to him. 33 He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith—twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim. He wiped them out![h] The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites.[i]
34 When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out[j] to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines.[k] She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter. 35 When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said, “Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me![l] You have brought me disaster![m] I made an oath to the Lord, and I cannot break it.”[n] 36 She said to him, “My father, since[o] you made an oath to the Lord, do to me as you promised.[p] After all, the Lord vindicated you before[q] your enemies, the Ammonites.” 37 She then said to her father, “Please grant me this one wish.[r] For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.”[s] 38 He said, “You may go.” He permitted her to leave[t] for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.[u] 39 After two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She died a virgin.[v] Her tragic death gave rise to a custom in Israel.[w] 40 Every year[x] Israelite women commemorate[y] the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days.[z]
Paul Rebukes Peter
11 But when Cephas[a] came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he had clearly done wrong.[b] 12 Until[c] certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this[d] and separated himself[e] because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.[f] 13 And the rest of the Jews also joined with him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray with them[g] by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not behaving consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to force[h] the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
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