Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
22 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me; are so far from My health and from the words of My roaring?
2 O, My God, I cry by day, but You do not hear; and by night but have no audience.
3 But You are Holy and inhabit the praises of Israel.
4 Our fathers trusted in You. They trusted, and You delivered them.
5 They called upon You and were delivered. They trusted in You and were not confounded.
6 But I am a worm, and not a man, a shame of men and the contempt of the people.
7 All those who see Me, hold Me in derision. They shoot out the lip and nod the head, saying,
8 “He trusted in the LORD. Let Him deliver Him. Let Him save Him, seeing He loves Him.”
9 But You drew Me out of the womb. You gave Me hope, even at My mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon You, even from the womb. You are My God, from My mother’s belly.
11 Be not far from Me, because trouble is near. For there is no one to help.
12 Many young bulls have surrounded Me. Mighty bulls of Bashan have encircled Me.
13 They gape upon Me with their mouths, a ramping and roaring lion.
14 I am like water poured out; and all My bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is molten in the midst of My core.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and My tongue clings to My jaws; and You have brought Me into the dust of death.
18 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
2 “When will you put an end to your words? Make us understand, and then we will speak.
3 “Why are we counted as beasts, and vile in your sight?
4 “You are as one who tears his soul in his anger. Shall the Earth be forsaken for your sake, or the rock removed from its place?
5 “Yea, the light of the wicked shall be quenched. And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6 “The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7 “The steps of his strength shall be restrained, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 “For he is taken in the net by his feet, and he walks upon the snares.
9 “The net shall take him by the heel, and the traps shall come upon him.
10 “A noose is laid for him on the ground, and a trap for him on the way.
11 “Fearfulness shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12 “His strength shall be famine. And destruction shall be ready at his side.
13 “It shall devour the inner parts of his skin. The firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
14 “His hope shall be rooted out of his dwelling, and shall cause him to go to the king of fear.
15 “Fear shall dwell in his house (because it is not his). Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 “His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut down.
17 “His memory shall perish from the Earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18 “They shall drive him out of the light into darkness and chase him out of the world.
19 “He shall have neither son nor nephew among his people, nor any posterity in his dwellings.
20 “Those who follow shall be astonished every day, and fear shall come upon the ancient.
21 “Surely such are the habitations of the wicked. And this is the place of him who does not know God.”
4 Therefore, let us fear, lest at any time any of you should seem to have come short of the promise of entering into His rest.
2 For the Gospel was preached to us as well as them. But the word that they heard did not profit them, because it was not mixed with faith in those who heard it.
3 For we who have believed have entered into rest, as He said, “As I have sworn in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter into My rest,’” However, the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For He spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way, “And God rested the seventh day from all His works.”
5 And in this place again, “If they shall enter into My rest.”
6 Therefore, seeing it remains that some must enter into it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter therein for unbelief’s sake,
7 again (after so long a time) He appointed through David a certain day - “Today” - by saying, “This day, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then would He not later have spoken of another day?
9 There remains, therefore, a rest to the people of God.
10 For the one who has entered into His rest has also ceased from his own works (as God did from His).
11 Therefore, let us study to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
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