Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

101 A Psalm of David. Kindness and judgment I sing, To Thee, O Jehovah, I sing praise.

² I act wisely in a perfect way, When dost Thou come in unto me? I walk habitually in the integrity of my heart, In the midst of my house.

³ I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.

⁴ A perverse heart turneth aside from me, Wickedness I know not.

⁵ Whoso slandereth in secret his neighbour, Him I cut off, The high of eyes and proud of heart, him I endure not.

⁶ Mine eyes are on the faithful of the land, To dwell with me, Whoso is walking in a perfect way, he serveth me.

⁷ He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine eyes.

⁸ At morning I cut off all the wicked of the land, To cut off from the city of Jehovah All the workers of iniquity!

¹⁹ And the chief of the butlers saith unto them, `Say, I pray you, unto Hezekiah, Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What [is] this confidence in which thou hast confided?

²⁰ Thou hast said: Only a word of the lips! counsel and might [are] for battle; now, on whom hast thou trusted that thou hast rebelled against me?

²¹ `Now, lo, thou hast trusted for thee on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it! -- so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.

²² `And when ye say unto me, Unto Jehovah our God we have trusted, is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar do ye bow yourselves in Jerusalem?

²³ `And, now, give a pledge for thee, I pray thee, to my lord the king of Asshur, and I give to thee two thousand horses, if thou art able to give for thee riders on them.

²⁴ And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, that thou dost trust for thee on Egypt for chariot, and for horsemen?

²⁵ Now, without Jehovah have I come up against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and thou hast destroyed it.'

19 And it cometh to pass, at king Hezekiah's hearing, that he rendeth his garments, and covereth himself with sackcloth, and entereth the house of Jehovah,

² and sendeth Eliakim, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz,

³ and they say unto him, `Thus said Hezekiah -- A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising [is] this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bring forth.

⁴ `It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear all the words of the chief of the butlers with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'

⁵ And the servants of king Hezekiah come in unto Isaiah,

⁶ and Isaiah saith to them, `Thus do ye say unto your lord: Thus said Jehovah, Be not afraid because of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.

⁷ Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a report, and hath turned back to his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.'

¹⁸ And a certain ruler questioned him, saying, `Good teacher, what having done -- shall I inherit life age-during?'

¹⁹ And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one [is] good, except One -- God;

²⁰ the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.'

²¹ And he said, `All these I did keep from my youth;'

²² and having heard these things, Jesus said to him, `Yet one thing to thee is lacking; all things -- as many as thou hast -- sell, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me;'

²³ and he, having heard these things, became very sorrowful, for he was exceeding rich.

²⁴ And Jesus having seen him become very sorrowful, said, `How hardly shall those having riches enter into the reign of God!

²⁵ for it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to enter, than for a rich man into the reign of God to enter.'

²⁶ And those who heard, said, `And who is able to be saved?'

²⁷ and he said, `The things impossible with men are possible with God.'

²⁸ And Peter said, `Lo, we left all, and did follow thee;'

²⁹ and he said to them, `Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,

³⁰ who may not receive back manifold more in this time, and in the coming age, life age-during.'