Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
7 For I suffer[a] humiliation for your sake[b]
and am thoroughly disgraced.[c]
8 My own brothers treat me like a stranger;
they act as if I were a foreigner.[d]
9 Certainly[e] zeal for[f] your house[g] consumes me;
I endure the insults of those who insult you.[h]
10 I weep and refrain from eating food,[i]
which causes others to insult me.[j]
11 I wear sackcloth
and they ridicule me.[a]
12 Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me;
drunkards mock me in their songs.[b]
13 O Lord, may you hear my prayer and be favorably disposed to me.[c]
O God, because of your great loyal love,
answer me with your faithful deliverance.[d]
14 Rescue me from the mud. Don’t let me sink.
Deliver me[e] from those who hate me,
from the deep water.
15 Don’t let the current overpower me.
Don’t let the deep swallow me up.
Don’t let the Pit[f] devour me.[g]
12 But they just keep saying, ‘We do not care what you say![a] We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!’”[b]
13 Therefore, the Lord says,
“Ask the people of other nations
whether they have heard of anything like this.
Israel should have been like a virgin,
but she has done something utterly revolting!
14 Does the snow ever completely vanish from the rocky slopes of Lebanon?
Do the cool waters from those distant mountains ever cease to flow?[c]
15 Yet my people have forgotten me
and offered sacrifices to worthless idols.
This makes them stumble along in the way they live
and leave the old reliable path of their fathers.[d]
They have left them to walk in bypaths,
in roads that are not smooth and level.[e]
16 So their land will become an object of horror.[f]
People will forever hiss out their scorn over it.
All who pass that way will be filled with horror
and will shake their heads in derision.[g]
17 I will scatter them before their enemies
like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind.
I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them[h]
when disaster strikes them.”
Exposition of Psalm 8: Jesus and the Destiny of Humanity
5 For he did not put the world to come,[a] about which we are speaking,[b] under the control of angels. 6 Instead someone testified somewhere:
“What is man that you think of him[c] or the son of man that you care for him?
7 You made him lower than the angels for a little while.
You crowned him with glory and honor.[d]
8 You put all things under his control.”[e]
For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control,[f] 9 but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while,[g] now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death,[h] so that by God’s grace he would experience[i] death on behalf of everyone.
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