Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
9 God, I will sing a new song to You;
I will play on a ten-stringed harp for You(A)—
10 the One who gives victory to kings,
who frees His servant David
from the deadly sword.(B)
11 Set me free and rescue me
from the grasp of foreigners(C)
whose mouths speak lies,
whose right hands are deceptive.(D)
12 Then our sons will be like plants
nurtured in their youth,
our daughters, like corner pillars
that are carved in the palace style.(E)
13 Our storehouses will be full,
supplying all kinds of produce;(F)
our flocks will increase by thousands
and tens of thousands in our open fields.(G)
14 Our cattle will be well fed.[a]
There will be no breach in the walls,
no going into captivity,[b]
and no cry of lament in our public squares.(H)
15 Happy are the people with such blessings.
Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.(I)
5 Y Who is this(A) coming up from the wilderness,
leaning on the one she loves?
W I awakened you under the apricot tree.(B)
There your mother conceived you;
there she conceived and gave you birth.
6 Set me as a seal on your heart,
as a seal on your arm.(C)
For love is as strong as death;(D)
ardent love is as unrelenting as Sheol.
Love’s flames are fiery flames(E)—
the fiercest of all.[a]
7 Mighty waters cannot extinguish love;
rivers cannot sweep it away.
If a man were to give all his wealth[b] for love,(F)
it would be utterly scorned.
9 He also said to them, “You completely invalidate God’s command in order to maintain[a] your tradition! 10 For Moses(A) said:
Honor your father and your mother;(B)[b] and
Whoever speaks evil of father or mother
must be put to death.(C)[c]
11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit(D) you might have received from me is Corban’” (that is, a gift(E) committed to the temple), 12 “you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother. 13 You revoke God’s word(F) by your tradition that you have handed(G) down. And you do many other similar things.” 14 Summoning(H) the crowd again, He told them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:(I) 15 Nothing that goes into a person from outside can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him. [16 If anyone has ears to hear, he should listen!]”[d]
17 When He went into the house away from the crowd, the disciples asked Him about the parable. 18 And He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a man from the outside can defile him? 19 For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach(J) and is eliminated.”[e] (As a result, He made all foods clean.[f](K)) 20 Then He said, “What comes out of a person—that defiles him. 21 For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities,(L) thefts, murders,(M) 22 adulteries,(N) greed,(O) evil actions, deceit,(P) promiscuity,(Q) stinginess,[g] blasphemy,(R) pride,(S) and foolishness.(T) 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”
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