Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Tsadhe
137 (A)Righteous are You, O Yahweh,
And upright are Your judgments.
138 In (B)righteousness, You have commanded Your testimonies
And in exceeding (C)faithfulness.
139 My (D)zeal has [a]consumed me,
Because my adversaries have forgotten Your words.
140 Your [b](E)word is exceedingly refined,
Therefore Your slave (F)loves it.
141 I am small and (G)despised,
Yet I do not (H)forget Your precepts.
142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
And (I)Your law is truth.
143 Trouble and anguish have found me,
Yet Your commandments are my (J)delight.
144 Righteous are Your (K)testimonies forever;
(L)Give me understanding that I may live.
5 And indeed, (A)wine betrays the (B)haughty man
So that he does not (C)stay at home.
He (D)enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And assembles to himself all peoples.
6 “Will not all of these (E)lift up a taunt-song against him,
Even satire and riddles against him
And say, ‘(F)Woe to him who increases what is not his—
For how long—
And makes himself [a]rich with loans?’
7 Will not [b]your creditors (G)rise up suddenly,
And those who make you tremble awaken?
Indeed, you will become spoil for them.
8 Because you have (H)taken many nations as spoil,
All that is left of the peoples will take you as spoil—
Because of human bloodshed and violence [c]done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.
9 “Woe to him who is greedy for (I)evil gain for his house
To (J)put his nest on high,
To be delivered from the hand of evil!
10 You have counseled a (K)shameful thing for your house
By cutting off many peoples;
So you are (L)sinning against your own soul.
11 Surely the (M)stone will cry out from the wall,
And the rafter will answer it from the [d]framework.
39 They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is (A)our father.” Jesus *said to them, “(B)If you are Abraham’s children, you would do the deeds of Abraham. 40 But now (C)you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has (D)told you the truth, which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do. 41 You are doing the deeds of (E)your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of sexual immorality; (F)we have one Father: God.” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, (G)you would love Me, (H)for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have (I)not even come of Myself, but [a](J)He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand [b](K)what I am saying? It is because you cannot (L)hear My word. 44 (M)You are of (N)your father the devil, and (O)you want to do the desires of your father. (P)He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because (Q)there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks [c]a lie, he (R)speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of [d]lies. 45 But because (S)I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If (T)I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 (U)He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”
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