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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 89:1-4

Psalm 89^[a]

Prayer for the Fulfillment of God’s Promise

¹A maskil^[b] of Ethan the Ezrahite.

²^[c]I will sing forever of the Lord’s kindness;
    with my lips I will proclaim your faithfulness^[d]
    throughout the generations.
³You said, “My kindness lasts forever;
    my faithfulness is as firmly established as the heavens.
⁴“I have made a covenant with my chosen one;
    I have sworn to my servant David:

Footnotes

Psalm 89:1 This psalm constitutes a beautiful hymn to God the Creator and a grand acclamation to the Lord who has given his word and his promise to Israel. And although the facts in Israel’s history seem to give the lie to such splendid visions, the believer refuses to rely on appearances. God’s word and his promise are solid in spite of a temporary present roadblock, as a long history bears witness. The temporary roadblock may have been the attack on Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar and the exile of King Jehoiachin in 597 B.C. (see 2 Ki 24:8-17) or the disappearance of the Davidic dynasty after the Exile (from the sixth century on).
The psalmist sketches a wonderful catalog of God’s work: the origins of the world and the election of David; the order of the cosmos and the stability of the royal throne; heaven and earth and the present, past, and future. In time of incertitude, one must make use of this sublime contemplation and continue to believe in the faithfulness of God. Then the Messianic Hope will be renewed; it is the expectation of the coming of the Lord by his anointed, the Messiah.
Through David, it is principally to his Son, Jesus Christ, that God the Father promised love and faithfulness, prosperity and perpetual royal stability upon the new Israel, the Church. Even though catastrophes of all kinds seem to belie God’s loving faithfulness, we can pray this psalm with complete confidence.
Psalm 89:1 Maskil: see note on Ps 32:1a. Ethan the Ezrahite: he is thought to be the son of Zerah (hence, Ezrahite) and member of the tribe of Judah (see 1 Chr 2:6) as well as founder of one of the three choirs (see 1 Chr 15:19) and identical with the Jeduthun of Ps 39 (see 2 Chr 5:12).
Psalm 89:2 God is true. If anything is certain, it is his kindness and faithfulness. They endure without fail in creation, and they endure in the covenant with David (see 2 Sam 7:8-16; 1 Chr 17:10-15), on which Israel’s Messianic Hope is based.
Psalm 89:2 Kindness . . . faithfulness: see notes on Pss 6:5; 36:6f. These words are each repeated eight times in the psalm. Kindness: verses 2-3, 15, 18, 25, 29, 34, 50, and faithfulness: verses 2-3, 6, 9, 15, 25, 34, 50.

Psalm 89:15-18

¹⁵Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
    kindness and faithfulness go before your face.^[a]
¹⁶Blessed^[b] are the people who know how to acclaim you, O Lord,
    who walk in the light of your countenance.
¹⁷In your name they rejoice all day long,
    and they exult in your righteousness.
¹⁸^[c]You are the strength in which they glory,
    and by your kindness our horn^[d] is exalted.

Jeremiah 28:1-4

Chapter 28

Breaking the Yokes. ¹During that same year, at the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, the prophet Hananiah, the son of Azzur, from Gibeon, said to the prophet Jeremiah in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people, ²“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. ³Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the house of the Lord that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took away from this place and carried off to Babylon. ⁴I will also bring back to this place King Jeconiah of Judah, the son of Jehoiakim, and all the exiles of Judah who went to Babylon, says the Lord, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”

Luke 17:1-4

Various Episodes and Instructions

Chapter 17

Warning against Giving Scandal.^[a] ¹Jesus said to his disciples, “Scandals are bound to occur, but woe to the man through whom they come! ²It would be better for him if a millstone were fastened around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. ³Be on your guard!

The Need To Forgive.^[b] “If your brother should sin, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. ⁴Even if he wrongs you seven times a day, and comes back to you seven times to say, ‘I am sorry,’ you must forgive him.”

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Psalm 89[a]

Prayer for the Fulfillment of God’s Promise

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Chapter 28

Various Episodes and Instructions

Chapter 17

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Psalm 89^[a]