Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Thanksgiving for the Lord’s Favor.
A Psalm of David.
138 (A)I will give You thanks with all my heart;
I will sing Your praises before the (B)gods.
2 I will bow down (C)toward Your holy temple
And (D)give thanks to Your name for Your mercy and Your [a]truth;
For You have (E)made Your [b]word great [c]according to all Your name.
3 On the day I (F)called, You answered me;
You made me bold with (G)strength in my soul.
4 (H)All the kings of the earth will give thanks to You, Lord,
When they have heard the words of Your mouth.
5 And they will (I)sing of the ways of the Lord,
For (J)great is the glory of the Lord.
6 For (K)the Lord is exalted,
Yet He (L)looks after the lowly,
But He knows the (M)haughty from afar.
7 Though I (N)walk in the midst of trouble, You will [d](O)revive me;
You will (P)reach out with Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,
And Your right hand will (Q)save me.
8 The Lord will (R)accomplish what concerns me;
Your (S)faithfulness, Lord, is everlasting;
(T)Do not abandon the (U)works of Your hands.
15 ‘This is what the Lord God says: “On the day when it went down to Sheol I (A)caused mourning; I closed the [a]deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it. 16 I made the nations (B)quake from the sound of its fall when I made it (C)go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the [b]well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of (D)Lebanon, were (E)comforted in the earth beneath. 17 They also (F)went down with it to Sheol to those who were (G)slain by the sword; and those who were its [c]strength lived (H)in its shade among the nations.
18 “To which among the trees of Eden are you so alike in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the (I)uncircumcised with those who were killed by the sword. (J)This is Pharaoh and all his hordes!”’ declares the Lord God.”
12 For we do not presume to rank or compare ourselves with [a]some of those who (A)commend themselves; but when they [b]measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they have no understanding. 13 But we will not boast (B)beyond our measure, but [c](C)within the measure of the [d]domain which God assigned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you. 14 For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for (D)we were the first to come even as far as you in the (E)gospel of Christ; 15 not boasting (F)beyond our measure, that is, in (G)other people’s labors, but with the hope that as (H)your faith grows, we will be, [e]within our [f]domain, (I)enlarged even more by you, 16 so as to (J)preach the gospel even to (K)the regions beyond you, and not to boast [g](L)in what has been accomplished in the domain of another. 17 But (M)the one who boasts is to boast in the Lord. 18 For it is not the one who (N)commends himself that is approved, but the one (O)whom the Lord commends.
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