Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ I waited patiently for the LORD, and he inclined unto me and heard my cry.

² He brought me up also out of the pit of hopelessness, out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock and straightened my steps.

³ And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God; many shall see it and fear and shall wait on the LORD.

⁴ Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

⁵ Thou hast increased, O LORD my God, thy wonderful works which thou hast done and thy thoughts regarding us; they are beyond our ability to express, declare, or speak; they cannot be told.

⁶ ¶ Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened; burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not required.

⁷ Then said I, Behold, I come; in the volume of the book it is written of me,

⁸ I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my bowels.

14 ¶ O Israel, become converted unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

² Take with you words, and be converted unto the LORD; say unto him, Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, so will we render the calves of our lips.

³ Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods, for in thee the fatherless finds mercy.

⁴ ¶ I will heal their rebellion; I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.

⁵ I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall flourish as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

⁶ His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

⁷ Those that shall sit under his shadow shall return; they shall be given life as the wheat, and they shall flourish as the vine; the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

⁸ ¶ Ephraim shall then say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him and gaze upon him; I will be unto him like a green fir tree; of me shall thy fruit be found.

⁹ Who is wise that he might understand this? and prudent that he might know this? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the rebellious shall fall therein.

12 ¶ At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the planted fields, and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck the ears of grain and to eat.

² But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.

³ But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, and those that were with him, when he was hungry,

⁴ how he entered into the house of God and ate the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

⁵ Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath and are blameless?

⁶ But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.

⁷ But if ye knew what this means, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not condemn the innocent.

⁸ For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.