Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁵ O Jehovah, in the heavens [is] Thy kindness, Thy faithfulness [is] unto the clouds.

⁶ Thy righteousness [is] as mountains of God, Thy judgments [are] a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.

⁷ How precious [is] Thy kindness, O God, And the sons of men In the shadow of Thy wings do trust.

⁸ They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.

⁹ For with Thee [is] a fountain of life, In Thy light we see light.

¹⁰ Draw out Thy kindness to those knowing Thee, And Thy righteousness to the upright of heart.

¹⁹ And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father -- ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.

²⁰ But -- a woman hath deceived her friend, So ye have dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah.

²¹ A voice on high places is heard -- weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made perverse their way, They have forgotten Jehovah their God.

²² Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou [art] Jehovah our God.

²³ Surely in vain from the heights, The multitude of mountains -- Surely in Jehovah our God [is] the salvation of Israel.

²⁴ And the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth, Their flock and their herd, Their sons and their daughters.

²⁵ We have lain down in our shame, and cover us doth our confusion, For against Jehovah our God we have sinned, We, and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, Nor have we hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God!

7 And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good [it is] for a man not to touch a woman,

² and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

³ to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

⁴ the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

⁵ Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

⁶ and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

⁷ for I wish all men to be even as I myself [am]; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.