Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Teth
65 You have dealt well with your servant,
O Lord, (A)according to your word.
66 Teach me (B)good judgment and knowledge,
for I believe in your commandments.
67 (C)Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep your word.
68 (D)You are good and do good;
(E)teach me your statutes.
69 (F)The insolent (G)smear me with lies,
but with my whole heart I (H)keep your precepts;
70 their heart is unfeeling (I)like fat,
but I (J)delight in your law.
71 It is (K)good for me that I was afflicted,
that I might learn your statutes.
72 (L)The law of your mouth is better to me
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
Comfort for the Contrite
14 And it shall be said,
(A)“Build up, build up, prepare the way,
remove every obstruction from my people's way.”
15 For thus says (B)the One who is high and lifted up,
who inhabits eternity, whose name is (C)Holy:
(D)“I dwell in the high and holy place,
and also (E)with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
(F)to revive the spirit of the lowly,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.
16 (G)For I will not contend forever,
nor will I always be angry;
for the spirit would grow faint before me,
and the breath of life that I made.
17 Because of the iniquity of his (H)unjust gain I was angry,
I struck him; I hid my face and was angry,
but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.
18 I have seen his ways, (I)but I will heal him;
I will lead him (J)and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
19 (K)creating (L)the fruit of the lips.
(M)Peace, peace, (N)to the far and to the near,” says the Lord,
(O)“and I will heal him.
20 (P)But the wicked are like the tossing sea;
for it cannot be quiet,
and its waters toss up mire and dirt.
21 (Q)There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
15 When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, (A)“Blessed is everyone who will (B)eat bread in the kingdom of God!” 16 But he said to him, (C)“A man once (D)gave a great banquet and invited many. 17 And at the time for the banquet he (E)sent his servant[a] to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ 18 But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’ 19 And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’ 20 And another said, (F)‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’ 21 So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in (G)the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’ 22 And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’ 23 And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I tell you,[b] (H)none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.’”
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.