Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
6 [a](A)Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;
My ears You have [b]opened;
Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is [c]written of me.
8 (B)I delight to do Your will, O my God;
(C)Your Law is within my heart.”
9 I have (D)proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation;
Behold, I will (E)not restrain my lips,
O Lord, (F)You know.
10 I have (G)not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have (H)spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.
11 You, O Lord, will not withhold Your compassion from me;
[d]Your (I)lovingkindness and Your truth will continually preserve me.
12 For evils beyond number have (J)surrounded me;
My (K)iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see;
They are (L)more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my (M)heart has [e]failed me.
13 (N)Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me;
Make (O)haste, O Lord, to help me.
14 Let those be (P)ashamed and humiliated together
Who (Q)seek my [f]life to destroy it;
Let those be turned back and dishonored
Who delight [g]in my hurt.
15 Let those (R)be [h]appalled because of their shame
Who (S)say to me, “Aha, aha!”
16 (T)Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
Let those who love Your salvation (U)say continually,
“The Lord be magnified!”
17 Since (V)I am afflicted and needy,
[i](W)Let the Lord be mindful of me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Do not delay, O my God.
Deliverance Promised
12 “Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel [a]whom I called;
(A)I am He, (B)I am the first, I am also the last.
13 “Surely My hand (C)founded the earth,
And My right hand spread out the heavens;
When I (D)call to them, they stand together.
14 “(E)Assemble, all of you, and listen!
(F)Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him; he will (G)carry out His good pleasure on (H)Babylon,
And His arm will be against the Chaldeans.
15 “I, even I, have spoken; indeed I have (I)called him,
I have brought him, and He will make his ways successful.
16 “(J)Come near to Me, listen to this:
From the first I have (K)not spoken in secret,
(L)From the time it took place, I was there.
And now (M)the Lord [b]God has sent Me, and His Spirit.”
17 Thus says the Lord, your (N)Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
“I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit,
Who (O)leads you in the way you should go.
18 “If only you had (P)paid attention to My commandments!
Then your [c](Q)well-being would have been like a river,
And your (R)righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19 “Your [d](S)descendants would have been like the sand,
And [e]your offspring like its grains;
(T)Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence.”
20 (U)Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with the sound of (V)joyful shouting, proclaim this,
(W)Send it out to the end of the earth;
Say, “(X)The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”
21 They did not (Y)thirst when He led them through the deserts.
He (Z)made the water flow out of the rock for them;
He split the rock and (AA)the water gushed forth.
The Question about Fasting
14 Then the disciples of John *came to Him, asking, “Why do we and (A)the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” 15 And Jesus said to them, “The [a]attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16 But no one puts [b]a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for [c]the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results. 17 Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
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