Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ I will hear what God the Lord will speak,
For He will speak peace
To His people and to His saints;
But let them not turn back to ^[a]folly.
⁹ Surely ^(A)His salvation is near to those who fear Him,
^(B)That glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰ Mercy and truth have met together;
^(C)Righteousness and peace have kissed.
¹¹ Truth shall spring out of the earth,
And righteousness shall look down from heaven.
^12 (D)Yes, the Lord will give what is good;
And our land will yield its increase.
¹³ Righteousness will go before Him,
And shall make His footsteps our pathway.

“For three transgressions of ^(A)Israel, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because ^(B)they sell the righteous for silver,
And the ^(C)poor for a pair of sandals.
⁷ They ^[a]pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor,
And ^(D)pervert the way of the humble.
^(E)A man and his father go in to the same girl,
^(F)To defile My holy name.
⁸ They lie down ^(G)by every altar on clothes ^(H)taken in pledge,
And drink the wine of ^[b]the condemned in the house of their god.

⁹ “Yet it was I who destroyed the ^(I)Amorite before them,
Whose height was like the ^(J)height of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
Yet I ^(K)destroyed his fruit above
And his roots beneath.
¹⁰ Also it was ^(L)I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And ^(M)led you forty years through the wilderness,
To possess the land of the Amorite.
¹¹ I raised up some of your sons as ^(N)prophets,
And some of your young men as ^(O)Nazirites.
Is it not so, O you children of Israel?”
Says the Lord.
¹² “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
And commanded the prophets ^(P)saying,
‘Do not prophesy!’

¹³ “Behold,^(Q) I am ^[c]weighed down by you,
As a cart full of sheaves ^[d]is weighed down.
^14 (R)Therefore ^[e]flight shall perish from the swift,
The strong shall not strengthen his power,
^(S)Nor shall the mighty ^[f]deliver himself;
¹⁵ He shall not stand who handles the bow,
The swift of foot shall not ^[g]escape,
Nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself.
¹⁶ The most ^[h]courageous men of might
Shall flee naked in that day,”
Says the Lord.