Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁹ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble. My eye, my soul and my belly are consumed with grief.

¹⁰ For my life is wasted with heaviness, and my years with mourning. My strength fails because of my pain; and my bones are consumed.

¹¹ I was a reproach among all my enemies — but especially among my neighbors — and a fear to my acquaintances. Who, seeing me in the street, fled from me.

¹² I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

¹³ For I have heard the railing of great men. Fear was on every side, while they conspired together against me and consulted to take my life.

¹⁴ But I trusted in You, O LORD. I said, “You are my God.”

¹⁵ My times are in Your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

¹⁶ Make Your face to shine upon Your servant. Save me through Your mercy.

¹⁰ Yet it pleased the LORD to break Him and make Him endure grief, when He shall make His soul an Offering for sin. He shall see His seed and shall prolong His days. And the will of the LORD shall prosper in His Hand.

¹¹ He shall see the labor of His soul and shall be satisfied. “By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify many. For He shall bear their iniquities.

¹² “Therefore, I will give him a portion with the great. And He shall divide the plunder with the strong, because He has poured out His soul until death. And He was counted with the transgressors. And He bore the sin of many, and prayed for the trespassers.”

2 Therefore we ought to diligently pay attention to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we drift away.

² For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense,

³ how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation (which at first began to be preached by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him;

⁴ God bearing witness to it both with signs and wonders, and with diverse miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to His own will)?

⁵ For He has not put the world to come (whereof we speak) in subjection to the angels.

⁶ But one in a certain place witnessed, saying, “What is man that You should be mindful of him; or the son of man that You would consider him?

⁷ “You made him a little inferior to the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor and have set him above the works of Your Hands.

⁸ “You have put all things in subjection under his feet.” And in that He has put all things in subjection under him, He left nothing that should not be subject to him. But we still do not see all things subjected to him.

⁹ But we see Jesus, who was made little inferior to the angels, crowned with glory and honor through the suffering of death. That by God’s grace He might taste death for everyone.