Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Prayer for Help in Trouble.
[a]Maskil of David, when he was [b]in the cave. A Prayer.
142 I (A)cry out with my voice to the Lord;
With my voice I (B)implore the Lord for compassion.
2 I (C)pour out my complaint before Him;
I declare my (D)trouble before Him.
3 When (E)my spirit felt weak within me,
You knew my path.
In the way where I walk
They have (F)hidden a trap for me.
4 Look to the right and see;
For there is (G)no one who regards me favorably;
[c]There is no (H)escape for me;
(I)No one cares for my soul.
5 I cried out to You, Lord;
I said, “You are (J)my refuge,
My (K)portion in the (L)land of the living.
6 (M)Give Your attention to my cry,
For I have been (N)brought very low;
Rescue me from my persecutors,
For they are too (O)strong for me.
7 (P)Bring my soul out of prison,
So that I may give thanks to Your name;
The righteous will surround me,
For You will (Q)look after me.”
12 “Woe to him who (A)builds a city with bloodshed,
And founds a town with [a]violence!
13 Is it not indeed from the Lord of armies
That peoples (B)labor merely for fire,
And nations become weary for nothing?
14 For the earth will be (C)filled
With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
As the waters cover the sea.
15 “Woe to him who makes his neighbor drink;
[b]To you who mix in your venom even to make your neighbors drunk,
So as to look at their genitalia!
16 You will be filled with disgrace rather than honor.
(D)Drink, you yourself, and [c]expose your own foreskin!
The (E)cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you,
And (F)utter disgrace will come upon your glory.
17 For the (G)violence [d]done to Lebanon will [e]overwhelm you,
And the devastation of its animals [f]by which you terrified them,
(H)Because of human bloodshed and (I)violence [g]done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.
18 “What (J)benefit is a carved image when its maker has carved it,
Or a cast metal image, a (K)teacher of falsehood?
For its maker (L)trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.
19 Woe to him who (M)says to a piece of wood, ‘(N)Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
That is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with (O)gold and silver,
Yet there is (P)no breath at all inside it.
20 But the (Q)Lord is in His holy temple.
[h]Let all the earth (R)be silent before Him.”
9 I wrote to you in my letter (A)not to associate with sexually immoral people; 10 I did not at all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with (B)idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world. 11 But [a]actually, I [b]wrote to you not to associate [c]with any so-called (C)brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or (D)an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person. 12 For what business of mine is it to judge (E)outsiders? (F)Do you not judge those who are within the church? 13 But those who are outside, God [d]judges. (G)Remove the evil person from among yourselves.
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