Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
מ MEM
97 Oh, how I love Your law!
(A)It is my meditation all the day.
98 You, through Your commandments, make me (B)wiser than my enemies;
For they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,
(C)For Your testimonies are my meditation.
100 (D)I understand more than the [a]ancients,
Because I keep Your precepts.
101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way,
That I may keep Your word.
102 I have not departed from Your judgments,
For You Yourself have taught me.
103 (E)How sweet are Your words to my taste,
Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.
Impending Judgment on Zion
10 “Now(A) I will rise,” says the Lord;
“Now I will be exalted,
Now I will lift Myself up.
11 (B)You shall conceive chaff,
You shall bring forth stubble;
Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be like the burnings of lime;
(C)Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.
13 Hear, (D)you who are afar off, what I have done;
And you who are near, acknowledge My might.”
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites:
“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring (E)fire?
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”
15 He who (F)walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
He who despises the gain of oppressions,
Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes,
Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed,
And (G)shuts his eyes from seeing evil:
16 He will dwell on [a]high;
His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks;
Bread will be given him,
His water will be sure.
16 (A)You did not choose Me, but I chose you and (B)appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father (C)in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
The World’s Hatred
18 (D)“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 (E)If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet (F)because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, (G)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. (H)If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 But (I)all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. 22 (J)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, (K)but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 (L)He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among them (M)the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have (N)seen and also hated both Me and My Father. 25 But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, (O)‘They hated Me without a cause.’
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.