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.
20 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2 “Doubtless my divided thoughts cause me to answer, and therefore I hurry.
3 “I have heard the correction of my reproach. Therefore, the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
4 “Do you not know this from old, since God placed man upon the Earth,
5 “that the rejoicing of the wicked is short, and that the joy of the hypocrites is but a moment?
6 “Though his pride mounts up to the heaven, and his head reaches to the clouds,
7 “yet shall he perish forever like his dung. Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’
8 “He shall flee away as a dream and they shall not find him, and shall pass away as a vision of the night,
9 “so that the eye which had seen him shall do so no more and his place shall see him no more.
10 “His children shall flatter the poor, and his hands shall restore his substance.
11 “His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
12 “When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, he hid it under his tongue,
13 “favored it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth.
14 “His food in his bowels was turned, the gall of asps in the midst of him.
15 “He has devoured substance and he shall vomit it. God shall draw it out of his belly.
16 “He shall suck the gall of asps. The viper’s tongue shall slay him.
17 “He shall not see the rivers, the floods, streams of honey and butter.
18 “He shall restore the labor and shall devour no more. His exchange shall be according to the substance, and he shall enjoy it no more.
19 “For he has undone many. He has forsaken the poor, has spoiled houses which he did not build.
20 “Surely, he shall feel no quietness in his body, nor shall he reserve any of that which he desired.
21 “None of his food shall be left, nor hope for his well-being.
22 “When he shall be filled with his abundance, he shall be in pain. The hand of all the wicked shall assail him.
23 “He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall send His fierce wrath upon him, and shall cause it to rain upon him, even upon his food.
24 “He shall flee from the iron weapons. The bow of steel shall strike him through,
25 “be drawn out and come forth from the body, and shine from his gall. Fear will come upon him.
26 “All darkness shall be hidden in his secret places. The fire that is not blown shall devour him. That which remains in his tabernacle shall be destroyed.
27 “The heaven shall declare his wickedness and the Earth shall rise up against him.
28 “The increase of his house shall vanish. It shall flow away on the day of His wrath.
29 “This is the portion from God for the wicked man, and the heritage commanded by God.”
15 Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,
2 “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”
3 But He answered and said to them, “And why do you transgress the Commandment of God by your tradition?
4 “For God has commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and mother. And the one who curses father or mother, let him die the death.’
5 “But you say, ‘Whoever shall say to father or mother, “By the gift that is offered by me,” you may have profit;
6 though he does not honor his father or his mother. Thus, by your tradition, you have made the Commandment of God of no authority.
7 “O hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied well of you, saying,
8 “‘This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with the lips, but their heart is far away from Me.
9 ‘But they worship Me in vain, teaching men’s precepts as doctrines.’”
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