Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
6 [a](A)Sacrifice and meal offering [b]You have not desired;
My ears You have [c]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 [d]written of me.
8 (B)I desire to do Your will, O my God;
(C)Your law is within my inner being.”
9 I (D)proclaim good news of righteousness in the great assembly;
Behold, I do (E)not restrain my lips,
O Yahweh, (F)You know.
10 I do (G)not conceal Your righteousness within my heart;
I (H)speak of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I do not hide Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly.
11 You, O Yahweh, will not withhold Your compassion from me;
[e]Your (I)lovingkindness and Your truth will continually guard 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 [f]failed me.
13 (N)Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me;
Make (O)haste, O Yahweh, to help me.
14 Let those be (P)ashamed and humiliated together
Who (Q)seek my [g]life to sweep it away;
Let those be turned back and dishonored
Who delight in [h]evil against me.
15 Let those (R)be [i]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,
“Yahweh be magnified!”
17 As for me, (V)I am afflicted and needy,
[j](W)May the Lord think of me.
You are my help and the One who rescues me;
Do not delay, O my God.
Yahweh Redeems Jacob
12 “Hear Me, O Jacob, even Israel [a]whom I called;
(A)I am He, (B)I am the first, I am also the last.
13 Also, 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 hear!
(F)Who among them has declared these things?
Yahweh 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)Draw near to Me, hear this:
From the first I have (K)not spoken in secret,
(L)From the time it took place, I was there.
So now (M)Lord Yahweh has sent Me, and His Spirit.”
17 Thus says Yahweh, your (N)Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
“I am Yahweh 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 (Q)peace would have been like a river,
And your (R)righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19 Your (S)seed would have been like the sand,
And the offspring from your loins 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, cause this to be heard,
(W)Bring it forth to the end of the earth;
Say, “(X)Yahweh has redeemed His servant Jacob.”
21 And they did not (Y)thirst when He led them through the waste places.
He (Z)made the water flow out of the rock for them;
He split the rock, and (AA)the water gushed forth.
A Question About Fasting
14 Then the disciples of John *came to Him, [a]asking, “Why do we and (A)the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” 15 And Jesus said to them, “Can the [b]attendants of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16 But no one puts [c]a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for [d]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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