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]
Jeremiah is Flogged and Put in A Cell
20 Now Pashhur son of Immer heard Jeremiah prophesy these things. He was the priest who was chief of security[a] in the Lord’s temple. 2 When he heard Jeremiah’s prophecy, he had the prophet flogged.[b] Then he put him in the stocks[c] that were at the Upper Gate of Benjamin in the Lord’s temple.[d] 3 But the next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. When he did, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord’s name for you is not ‘Pashhur’ but ‘Terror is Everywhere.’[e] 4 For the Lord says, ‘I will make both you and your friends terrified of what will happen to you.[f] You will see all of them die by the swords of their enemies.[g] I will hand all the people of Judah over to the king of Babylon. He will carry some of them away into exile in Babylon and he will kill others of them with the sword. 5 I will hand over all the wealth of this city to their enemies. I will hand over to them all the fruits of the labor of the people of this city and all their prized possessions, as well as all the treasures of the kings of Judah. Their enemies will seize it all as plunder[h] and carry it off to Babylon. 6 You, Pashhur, and all your household[i] will go into exile in Babylon. You will die there and you will be buried there. The same thing will happen to all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.’”[j]
53 When he went out from there, the experts in the law[a] and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly,[b] and to ask him hostile questions[c] about many things, 54 plotting against[d] him, to catch[e] him in something he might say.
Fear God, Not People
12 Meanwhile,[f] when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus[g] began to speak first to his disciples, “Be on your guard against[h] the yeast of the Pharisees,[i] which is hypocrisy.[j] 2 Nothing is hidden[k] that will not be revealed,[l] and nothing is secret that will not be made known. 3 So then[m] whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered[n] in private rooms[o] will be proclaimed from the housetops.[p]
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