Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁵ Thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets Who are causing My people to err, Who are biting with their teeth, And have cried `Peace,' And he who doth not give unto their mouth, They have sanctified against him war.

⁶ Therefore a night ye have without vision, And darkness ye have without divination, And gone in hath the sun on the prophets, And black over them hath been the day.

⁷ And ashamed have been the seers, And confounded have been the diviners, And covered their lip have all of them, For their is no answer, O God.

⁸ And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.

⁹ Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.

¹⁰ Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.

¹¹ Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'

¹² Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house [is] for high places of a forest!

43 Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,

² For thou [art] the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?

³ Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They -- they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.

⁴ And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God.

⁵ What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!

⁹ for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

¹⁰ ye [are] witnesses -- God also -- how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

¹¹ even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

¹² for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

¹³ Because of this also, we -- we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

23 Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples,

² saying, `On the seat of Moses sat down the scribes and the Pharisees;

³ all, then, as much as they may say to you to observe, observe and do, but according to their works do not, for they say, and do not;

⁴ for they bind together burdens heavy and grievous to be borne, and lay upon the shoulders of men, but with their finger they will not move them.

⁵ `And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

⁶ they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

⁷ and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

⁸ `And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren;

⁹ and ye may not call [any] your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

¹⁰ nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director -- the Christ.

¹¹ And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,

¹² and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.