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.
5 “Also, if anyone has sinned—if he has heard the voice of an oath—and he can witness to it (whether he has seen or known of it) and does not do so, he shall be guilty.
2 “Or if anyone touches any unclean thing—whether it is a carcass of an unclean beast or a carcass of unclean cattle or a carcass of unclean creeping things—and is not aware of it, he is still unclean and has offended.
3 “Or if he touches any uncleanness of man (whatever uncleanness defiles him) and is not aware of it, and afterward comes to the knowledge of it, he has sinned.
4 “Or if anyone swears and pronounces with his lips to do evil or to do good (whichever it is that a man shall pronounce with an oath) —and it is hidden from him and then afterward he knows that he has offended in one of these points—
5 “when he has sinned in any of these things, he shall confess that he has sinned in it.
6 “Therefore, he shall bring his Trespass Offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed — a female from the flock, a lamb or a female goat for a Sin Offering — and the Priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin.
7 “But if he is not able to bring a sheep, he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the LORD (one for a Sin Offering and the other for a Burnt Offering) for his trespass which he has committed.
8 “So he shall bring them to the Priest, who shall offer the Sin Offering first, and wring the neck of it asunder, but not take it clean off.
9 “Afterward, he shall sprinkle from the blood of the Sin Offering upon the side of the Altar. And the rest of the blood shall be shed at the foot of the Altar. It is a Sin Offering.
10 “Also, he shall offer the second for a Burnt Offering, as is just. So shall the Priest make an atonement for him (for his sin which he has committed) and it shall be forgiven him.
11 “But if he is not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he who has sinned shall bring for his offering a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, for a Sin Offering. He shall put no oil on it, nor put any incense on it, for it is a Sin Offering.
12 “Then he shall bring it to the Priest. And the Priest shall take a handful of it, for its remembrance, and burn it upon the Altar with the offerings of the LORD, made by fire. It is a Sin Offering.
13 “So the Priest shall make an atonement for him, as touching his sin that he has committed in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him. And the remainder shall be the Priest’s, as the Meat Offering.”
17 Then He said to His disciples, “It is impossible for stumbling blocks not to come. But, but woe to him by whom they come.
2 “It would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.
3 “Pay attention to yourselves. If your brother trespasses against you, rebuke him. And if he repents, forgive him.
4 “And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turns again to you, saying, ‘I repent’, you shall forgive him.”
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