Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
38 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chastise me in Your wrath.
2 For Your arrows have pierced me deeply; and Your hand lies upon me.
3 Because of Your anger, there is nothing sound in my flesh; nor is there rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; as a weighty burden, they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds are putrefied, and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
6 I am bowed, and very troubled. I go mourning all day long.
7 For my core is full of burning; and there is nothing sound in my flesh.
8 I am weakened and very broken: I roar for the very grief of my heart.
9 LORD, I pour my whole desire before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.
10 My heart pants. My strength fails me, and the light of my eyes. Even they are not my own.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aside from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12 Also, those who seek after my life lay snares; and those who go about to do me evil talk wicked things and imagine deceit continually.
13 But I, as a deaf man, did not hear. I am as a dumb man who does not open his mouth.
14 Thus I am as a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
15 For on You, O LORD, I wait. You will hear, my LORD. My God.
16 For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they extol themselves against me.”
17 Surely, I am ready to halt; and my sorrow is ever before me.
18 When I declare my pain, and am sorry for my sin,
19 then my enemies are alive and are mighty; and those who hate me wrongfully are many.
20 Also, those who reward evil for good are my adversaries, because I follow goodness.
21 Do not forsake me, O LORD. Do not be far from me, my God.
22 Hasten to help me, O my LORD. My Salvation. To the excellent musician, Jeduthun: A Psalm of David.
24 And David went from there and dwelt in strongholds at En Gedi.
2 When Saul had turned from the Philistines, they told him, saying, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”
3 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks among the wild goats.
4 And he came to the sheepfolds along the way, where there was a cave. And Saul went in to relieve himself. And David and his men sat in the inner parts of the cave.
5 And the men of David said to him, “Behold, the day has come of which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose and stealthily cut off the lap of Saul’s garment.
6 And afterward, David was touched in his heart, because he had cut off the lap which was on Saul’s garment.
7 And he said to his men, “The LORD keep me from doing that thing to my master, the LORD’s anointed, to lay my hand upon him. For he is the anointed of the LORD.”
8 So David overcame his servants with these words and did not allow them to rise up against Saul. For Saul got up from the cave and went away.
9 Afterward, David also arose and went out of the cave and cried after Saul, saying, “O my lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David turned his face to the ground and bowed himself.
10 And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words who say, ‘Behold, David seeks evil against you’?
11 “Behold, your eyes have just seen that the LORD had delivered you this day into my hand in the cave. And some asked me to kill you. But I had compassion on you, and said, ‘I will not lay my hand on my master. For he is the LORD’s anointed.’
12 “Moreover, my father, behold. Behold, I say, the lap of your garment in my hand! For when I cut off the lap of your garment, I did not kill you. Understand and see that there is neither evil nor wickedness in me. Nor have I sinned against you. Yet you hunt after my soul to take it.
13 “The LORD be judge between you and me. And the LORD avenge me of you. But let not my hand be upon you.
14 “Just as the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked, but my hand be not upon you.’
15 “After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue, after a dead dog, after a flea?
16 “The LORD, therefore, be judge, and judge between you and me, and see and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”
17 When David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And Saul lifted up his voice and wept,
18 and said to David, “You are more righteous than I. For you have rendered me good and I have rendered you evil.
19 “And you have shown this day that you have dealt well with me. For when the LORD had closed me in your hands, you did not kill me.
20 “For who shall find his enemy and let him depart free? Therefore, may the LORD render you good for what you have done to me this day.
21 “For now, behold, I know that you shall be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
22 “Swear now, therefore, to me by the LORD that you will not destroy my seed after me, and that you will not abolish my name out of my father’s House.”
23 So David swore to Saul. And Saul went home. But David and his men went up to the stronghold.
17 Now in this message I do not praise: that you come together, not for the better, but for the worse.
18 For first of all, I hear that there are divisions among you when you come together in the church. And in part I believe it.
19 For there must also be heresies among you, so that those who are approved might be known among you.
20 Therefore, when you come together into one place, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper.
21 For everyone, when he eats, takes his own supper beforehand. And one is hungry and another is drunk.
22 What!? Do you not have houses in which to eat and to drink? Or do you despise the Church of God and shame those who do not have? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.
27 Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be liable to the body and blood of the Lord.
28 Let every man therefore examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread, and drink of this cup.
29 For whoever eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks his own damnation, not discerning the Lord’s body.
30 For this reason, many among you are weak, and sick, and many sleep.
31 For if we were to judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, because we would not be condemned with the world.
33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
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