Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
7 For it is (A)for your sake that I have borne reproach,
that dishonour has covered my face.
8 I have become (B)a stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother's sons.
9 For (C)zeal for your house has consumed me,
and (D)the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10 When I wept and humbled[a] my soul with fasting,
it became my reproach.
11 When I made (A)sackcloth my clothing,
I became (B)a byword to them.
12 I am the talk of those who (C)sit in the gate,
and the drunkards make (D)songs about me.
13 But as for me, my (E)prayer is to you, O Lord.
At (F)an acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
14 Deliver me
from sinking in (G)the mire;
(H)let me be delivered from my enemies
and from (I)the deep waters.
15 Let not the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or (J)the pit close (K)its mouth over me.
Jeremiah Persecuted by Pashhur
20 Now (A)Pashhur the priest, the son of (B)Immer, who was (C)chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. 2 Then (D)Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him (E)in the stocks that were in the upper (F)Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord. 3 The next day, when (G)Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord does not call your name (H)Pashhur, but Terror On Every Side. 4 For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you (I)a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword. 5 Moreover, (J)I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its (K)prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon. 6 And you, (L)Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, (M)to whom you have prophesied falsely.”
53 As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things, 54 (A)lying in wait for him, (B)to catch him in something he might say.
Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees
12 In the meantime, (C)when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, (D)“Beware of (E)the leaven of the Pharisees, (F)which is hypocrisy. 2 (G)Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. 3 Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in (H)private rooms shall be proclaimed on (I)the housetops.
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