Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
10 Why do you stand afar off, O LORD, hiding Yourself in time of trouble?
2 With pride, the wicked persecute the poor. Let them be taken in the crafts that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked has boasted of his own heart’s desire; and the covetous blesses himself and despises the LORD.
4 The wicked is so proud that he does not seek. He thinks always, “There is no God.”
5 His ways always prosper. Your judgments are high above his sight. He defies all his enemies.
6 He says in his heart, “I shall never be moved, nor be in danger.”
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
8 He lies in wait in the villages. He murders the innocent in the secret places. His eyes are bent against the poor.
9 He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den. He lies in wait to catch the poor. He catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
10 He crouches and bows. Therefore, heaps of the poor fall by his might.
11 He has said in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face and will never see.”
12 Arise, O LORD God. Lift up Your hand. Do not forget the poor.
13 Why do the wicked despise God? He says in his heart, “You will not see.”
14 Yet You have seen it. For You behold mischief and wrong, so that You may take it into Your hands. The poor commits himself to You. You are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and malicious. Search his wickedness until you shall find none.
16 The LORD is King forever and ever. The heathen are destroyed from His land.
17 LORD, You have heard the desire of the oppressed. You prepare their heart. You bend Your ear
18 to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, so that earthly man causes no more fear. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.
7 The Words that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 “Stand in the gate of the LORD’s House, and cry this Word there, and say, ‘Hear the Word of the LORD, all you of Judah who enter in at these gates, to worship the LORD!”
3 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Amend your ways and your works, and I will let you dwell in this place.
4 “Do not trust in lying words, saying, ‘The Temple of the LORD, the Temple of the LORD, this is the Temple of the LORD.’
5 “For if you amend and redress your ways and your works, if you execute judgment between a man and neighbor,
6 “and do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place or walk after other gods, to your destruction,
7 “then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
8 “Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit.
9 “Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know,
10 “and come and stand before Me in this House, whereupon My Name is called, and say, ‘We are delivered, even though we have done all these abominations’?
11 “Has this House become a den of thieves, whereupon My Name is called before your eyes? Behold, even I see it,” says the LORD.
12 “But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I set My Name at the beginning. And behold what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel.
13 “Therefore, now, because you have done all these works,” says the LORD, “I rose up early and spoke to you. But when I spoke, you would not hear Me, nor would you answer when I called.
14 “Therefore I will do to this House upon which My Name is called — in which you also trust, the place that I gave to you and to your fathers — as I have done to Shiloh.
15 “And I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, the whole seed of Ephraim.
7 Therefore, as the Holy Ghost says, “Today, if you shall hear His voice,
8 “do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion on the day of temptation in the wilderness,
9 “where your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My works for forty years.
10 “Therefore, I was grieved with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, nor have they known My ways.’
11 “Therefore, I swear in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter into My rest.’”
12 Pay attention, brothers, lest at any time there be in any of you an evil and unfaithful heart, departing from the living God.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today”, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have been made partakers of Christ, if we keep sure to the end that beginning which upholds us,
15 so long as it is said, “Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For some, when they heard, provoked Him to anger (though not all who came out of Egypt with Moses).
17 But with whom was He displeased for forty years? Was He not displeased with those who sinned; whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter into His rest, but to those who disobeyed?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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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