Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

53 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They have corrupted and done abominable wickedness. There is no one that does good.

² God looked down from Heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any who would understand and seek God.

³ Everyone has gone back. They are altogether corrupt. There is no one who does good; no, not one.

⁴ Do not the workers of iniquity know that they eat up my people as they eat bread? They do not call upon God.

⁵ There they were in fear where no fear was. For God has scattered the bones of him who besieged you. You have put them to confusion because God has cast them off.

⁶ Oh, give salvation to Israel out of Zion! When God turns the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice; and Israel shall be glad. To him who excels on Neginoth: A Psalm of David, to give instruction, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, “Is not David hidden among us?”

25 And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,

² “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When you shall come into the land which I give you, the land shall keep Sabbath to the LORD.

³ ‘Six years you shall sow your field. And six years you shall cut your vineyard and gather its fruit.

⁴ ‘But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of Rest to the land, the LORD’s Sabbath. You shall neither sow your field nor cut your vineyard.

⁵ ‘That of your harvest which grows of its own accord you shall not reap. Nor shall you gather the grapes that you have left unlabored. It shall be a year of rest to the land.

⁶ ‘And the rest of the land shall be food for you, for you and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for the stranger who sojourns with you,

⁷ ‘and for your cattle, and for the beasts that are in your land. All of its increase shall be food.

⁸ ‘Also, you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself (seven times seven years). And the space of the seven Sabbaths of years will be forty nine years to you.

⁹ ‘Then, on the tenth of the seventh month, you shall cause the Trumpet of the Jubilee to blow. On the Day of the Reconciliation you shall make the Trumpet blow throughout all your land.

¹⁰ ‘And you shall hallow that year, the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be the Jubilee to you. And you shall return every man to his possession. And every man shall return to his family.

¹¹ ‘This fiftieth year shall be a year of Jubilee to you. You shall neither sow nor reap that which grows on its own, nor gather the grapes of untended vines.

¹² ‘For it is the Jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

¹³ ‘In the year of this Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession.

¹⁴ ‘And when you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one another.

¹⁵ ‘According to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of the years of produce, he shall sell to you.

¹⁶ ‘According to the multitude of years, you shall increase its price. And according to the fewness of years, you shall lower the price of it. For he sells to you according to the number of the years of produce.

¹⁷ ‘Therefore, no one oppress his neighbor. But you shall fear your God. For I am the LORD, your God.

¹⁸ ‘Therefore, you shall obey My Ordinances, and keep My Laws and do them. And you shall dwell in the land in safety.

¹⁹ ‘And the land shall give her fruit. And you shall eat your fill and dwell there in safety.

⁹ Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the Lamb’s supper.’” And he said to me, “These words of God are true.”

¹⁰ And I fell before his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “See that you do not do it. I am your fellow servant, and one of your brothers, who has the testimony of Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.”