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Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with thematically matched Old and New Testament readings.
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Psalm 74

An Appeal against the Devastation of the Land by the Enemy.

A [a]Maskil of Asaph.

74 God, why have You (A)rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger (B)smoke against the (C)sheep of Your [b]pasture?
2 Remember Your congregation, which You (D)purchased of old,
Which You have (E)redeemed to be the (F)tribe of Your inheritance;
And this Mount (G)Zion, where You have dwelt.
3 [c]Step toward the [d](H)irreparable ruins;
The enemy (I)has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries have (J)roared in the midst of Your meeting place;
They have set up their (K)own signs as (L)signs.
5 It [e]seems like one bringing up
His (M)axe into a [f]forest of trees.
6 And now they break down [g]all its (N)carved work
With axe and hammers.
7 They have [h](O)burned Your sanctuary [i]to the ground;
They have (P)defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
8 They (Q)said in their heart, “Let’s [j]completely [k]subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9 We do not see our (R)signs;
There is (S)no longer any prophet,
Nor is there anyone among us who knows (T)how long.
10 How long, God, will the enemy (U)taunt You?
Shall the enemy (V)treat Your name disrespectfully forever?
11 Why (W)do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
Extend it from Your chest and (X)destroy them!

12 Yet God is (Y)my King from long ago,
Who performs acts of salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 [l]You (Z)divided the sea by Your strength;
[m]You (AA)broke the heads of the (AB)sea monsters [n]in the waters.
14 [o]You crushed the heads of [p](AC)Leviathan;
You gave him as food for the [q]creatures (AD)of the wilderness.
15 [r]You (AE)broke open springs and torrents;
[s]You (AF)dried up ever-flowing streams.
16 Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;
[t]You have (AG)prepared the [u]light and the sun.
17 [v]You have (AH)established all the boundaries of the earth;
[w]You have [x]created (AI)summer and winter.

18 Remember this, [y]Lord, that the enemy has (AJ)taunted You,
And a (AK)foolish people has treated Your name disrespectfully.
19 Do not give the soul of Your (AL)turtledove to the wild animal;
(AM)Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.
20 Consider the (AN)covenant;
For the (AO)dark places of the land are full of the places of violence.
21 May the (AP)oppressed person not return dishonored;
May the (AQ)afflicted and the needy praise Your name.

22 Arise, God, and (AR)plead Your own cause;
Remember [z]how the (AS)foolish person taunts You all day long.
23 Do not forget the voice of Your (AT)adversaries,
The (AU)uproar of those who rise against You, which ascends continually.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 74 Title Possibly, Contemplative; or Didactic; or Skillful Psalm
  2. Psalm 74:1 Or pasturing
  3. Psalm 74:3 Lit Lift Your footsteps
  4. Psalm 74:3 Lit ruins ruined for all time
  5. Psalm 74:5 Lit is known as
  6. Psalm 74:5 Lit thicket
  7. Psalm 74:6 Lit altogether
  8. Psalm 74:7 Lit set on fire
  9. Psalm 74:7 Or To the ground they...
  10. Psalm 74:8 Lit altogether
  11. Psalm 74:8 Or oppress
  12. Psalm 74:13 Or You Yourself
  13. Psalm 74:13 Or You Yourself
  14. Psalm 74:13 Lit on
  15. Psalm 74:14 Or You Yourself
  16. Psalm 74:14 Or sea monster
  17. Psalm 74:14 Lit people
  18. Psalm 74:15 Or You Yourself
  19. Psalm 74:15 Or You Yourself
  20. Psalm 74:16 Or You Yourself
  21. Psalm 74:16 Or luminary
  22. Psalm 74:17 Or You Yourself
  23. Psalm 74:17 Or You Yourself
  24. Psalm 74:17 Or formed
  25. Psalm 74:18 Or that the enemy has taunted the Lord
  26. Psalm 74:22 Lit Your reproach from the foolish man

Cross references

  1. Psalm 74:1 : Ps 44:9; 77:7
  2. Psalm 74:1 : Deut 29:20; Ps 18:8; 89:46
  3. Psalm 74:1 : Ps 79:13; 95:7; 100:3
  4. Psalm 74:2 : Ex 15:16; Deut 32:6
  5. Psalm 74:2 : Ex 15:13; Ps 77:15; 106:10; Is 63:9
  6. Psalm 74:2 : Deut 32:9; Is 63:17; Jer 10:16; 51:19
  7. Psalm 74:2 : Ps 9:11; 68:16
  8. Psalm 74:3 : Is 61:4
  9. Psalm 74:3 : Ps 79:1
  10. Psalm 74:4 : Lam 2:7
  11. Psalm 74:4 : Num 2:2
  12. Psalm 74:4 : Ps 74:9
  13. Psalm 74:5 : Jer 46:22
  14. Psalm 74:6 : 1 Kin 6:18, 29, 32, 35
  15. Psalm 74:7 : 2 Kin 25:9
  16. Psalm 74:7 : Ps 89:39; Lam 2:2
  17. Psalm 74:8 : Ps 83:4
  18. Psalm 74:9 : Ps 78:43
  19. Psalm 74:9 : 1 Sam 3:1; Lam 2:9; Ezek 7:26; Amos 8:11
  20. Psalm 74:9 : Ps 6:3; 79:5; 80:4
  21. Psalm 74:10 : Ps 44:16; 79:12; 89:51
  22. Psalm 74:10 : Lev 24:16
  23. Psalm 74:11 : Lam 2:3
  24. Psalm 74:11 : Ps 59:13
  25. Psalm 74:12 : Ps 44:4
  26. Psalm 74:13 : Ex 14:21; Ps 78:13
  27. Psalm 74:13 : Is 51:9
  28. Psalm 74:13 : Ps 148:7; Jer 51:34
  29. Psalm 74:14 : Job 41:1; Ps 104:26; Is 27:1
  30. Psalm 74:14 : Ps 72:9
  31. Psalm 74:15 : Ex 17:5, 6; Num 20:11; Ps 78:15; 105:41; 114:8; Is 48:21
  32. Psalm 74:15 : Ex 14:21, 22; Josh 2:10; 3:13; Ps 114:3
  33. Psalm 74:16 : Gen 1:14-18; Ps 104:19; 136:7, 8
  34. Psalm 74:17 : Deut 32:8; Acts 17:26
  35. Psalm 74:17 : Gen 8:22; Ps 147:16-18
  36. Psalm 74:18 : Ps 74:10
  37. Psalm 74:18 : Deut 32:6; Ps 14:1; 39:8; 53:1
  38. Psalm 74:19 : Song 2:14
  39. Psalm 74:19 : Ps 9:18
  40. Psalm 74:20 : Gen 17:7; Ps 106:45
  41. Psalm 74:20 : Ps 88:6; 143:3
  42. Psalm 74:21 : Ps 103:6
  43. Psalm 74:21 : Ps 35:10; Is 41:17
  44. Psalm 74:22 : Ps 43:1; Is 3:13; 43:26; Ezek 20:35
  45. Psalm 74:22 : Ps 14:1; 53:1; 74:18
  46. Psalm 74:23 : Ps 74:10
  47. Psalm 74:23 : Ps 65:7
Isaiah 26:16-27:1

16 Lord, they sought You (A)in distress;
They [a]could only whisper a prayer,
Your discipline was upon them.
17 (B)As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth,
She writhes and cries out in her labor pains;
This is how we were before You, Lord.
18 We were pregnant, we writhed in labor,
We (C)gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth,
Nor were (D)inhabitants of the world [b]born.
19 Your (E)dead will live;
[c]Their corpses will rise.
You who lie in the dust, (F)awake and shout for joy,
For your dew is as the dew of the [d]dawn,
And the earth will [e]give birth to the [f]departed spirits.

20 Come, my people, (G)enter your rooms
And close your doors behind you;
Hide for a little [g](H)while
Until (I)indignation [h]runs its course.
21 For behold, the Lord is about to (J)come out from His place
To (K)punish the inhabitants of the earth for their wrongdoing;
And the earth will (L)reveal her bloodshed
And will no longer cover her slain.

God’s Blessings for Israel

27 On that day (M)the Lord will punish [i](N)Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even [j]Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And (O)He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:16 Lit sound forth a whisper
  2. Isaiah 26:18 Lit fallen
  3. Isaiah 26:19 As in some ancient versions; MT My
  4. Isaiah 26:19 Lit lights
  5. Isaiah 26:19 Lit cause to fall
  6. Isaiah 26:19 Or shades
  7. Isaiah 26:20 Lit moment
  8. Isaiah 26:20 Lit passes over
  9. Isaiah 27:1 Or sea monster
  10. Isaiah 27:1 Or sea monster

Cross references

  1. Isaiah 26:16 : Is 37:3; Hos 5:15
  2. Isaiah 26:17 : Is 13:8; 21:3; John 16:21
  3. Isaiah 26:18 : Is 33:11; 59:4
  4. Isaiah 26:18 : Ps 17:14
  5. Isaiah 26:19 : Is 25:8; Ezek 37:1-14; Dan 12:2; Hos 13:14
  6. Isaiah 26:19 : Eph 5:14
  7. Isaiah 26:20 : Ex 12:22, 23; Ps 91:1, 4
  8. Isaiah 26:20 : Ps 30:5; Is 54:7, 8; 2 Cor 4:17
  9. Isaiah 26:20 : Is 10:5, 25; 13:5; 34:2; 66:14
  10. Isaiah 26:21 : Mic 1:3; Jude 14
  11. Isaiah 26:21 : Is 13:11; 30:12-14; 65:6, 7
  12. Isaiah 26:21 : Job 16:18; Luke 11:50
  13. Isaiah 27:1 : Is 66:16
  14. Isaiah 27:1 : Job 3:8; 41:1; Ps 74:14; 104:26
  15. Isaiah 27:1 : Is 51:9
Luke 11:14-28

Pharisees’ Blasphemy

14 (A)And He was casting out a mute demon; when the demon had gone out, the man who was previously unable to speak talked, and the crowds were amazed. 15 But some of them said, “He casts out the demons (B)by (C)Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.” 16 Others, [a]to test Him, (D)were demanding of Him a [b]sign from heaven. 17 (E)But He knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and a house divided against [c]itself falls. 18 And if (F)Satan also has been divided against himself, how will his kingdom [d]stand? For you claim that I cast out the demons by (G)Beelzebul. 19 Yet if by (H)Beelzebul I cast out the demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore, they will be your judges. 20 But if I cast out the demons by [e]the (I)finger of God, then (J)the kingdom of God has come upon you. 21 When [f]a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are [g]secure. 22 But when someone stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, that man takes away his armor on which he had relied and distributes his plunder. 23 (K)The one who is not with Me is against Me; and the one who does not gather with Me scatters.

24 “(L)When the unclean spirit comes out of [h]a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it then says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ 25 And when it comes, it finds it swept and put in order. 26 Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they come in and live there; and the last condition of that person becomes worse than the first.”

27 While [i]Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “(M)Blessed is the womb that carried You, and the breasts at which You nursed!” 28 But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are (N)those who hear the word of God and follow it.”

Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:16 Lit testing
  2. Luke 11:16 I.e., confirming miracle
  3. Luke 11:17 Lit a house
  4. Luke 11:18 I.e., remain stable
  5. Luke 11:20 I.e., an undeniable act of God
  6. Luke 11:21 Lit the
  7. Luke 11:21 Lit in peace
  8. Luke 11:24 Lit the
  9. Luke 11:27 Lit He

Cross references

  1. Luke 11:14 : Luke 11:14, 15: Matt 12:22, 24; Matt 9:32-34
  2. Luke 11:15 : Matt 9:34
  3. Luke 11:15 : Matt 10:25
  4. Luke 11:16 : Matt 12:38; 16:1; Mark 8:11
  5. Luke 11:17 : Luke 11:17-22: Matt 12:25-29; Mark 3:23-27
  6. Luke 11:18 : Matt 4:10
  7. Luke 11:18 : Matt 10:25
  8. Luke 11:19 : Matt 10:25
  9. Luke 11:20 : Ex 8:19
  10. Luke 11:20 : Matt 3:2
  11. Luke 11:23 : Matt 12:30; Mark 9:40
  12. Luke 11:24 : Luke 11:24-26: Matt 12:43-45
  13. Luke 11:27 : Luke 23:29
  14. Luke 11:28 : Luke 8:21
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