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Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

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Psalm 92

Psalm 92[a]

A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day.

1 It is good to praise the Lord
    and make music(A) to your name,(B) O Most High,(C)
2 proclaiming your love in the morning(D)
    and your faithfulness at night,
3 to the music of the ten-stringed lyre(E)
    and the melody of the harp.(F)

4 For you make me glad by your deeds, Lord;
    I sing for joy(G) at what your hands have done.(H)
5 How great are your works,(I) Lord,
    how profound your thoughts!(J)
6 Senseless people(K) do not know,
    fools do not understand,
7 that though the wicked spring up like grass
    and all evildoers flourish,
    they will be destroyed forever.(L)

8 But you, Lord, are forever exalted.

9 For surely your enemies(M), Lord,
    surely your enemies will perish;
    all evildoers will be scattered.(N)
10 You have exalted my horn[b](O) like that of a wild ox;(P)
    fine oils(Q) have been poured on me.
11 My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries;
    my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.(R)

12 The righteous will flourish(S) like a palm tree,
    they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;(T)
13 planted in the house of the Lord,
    they will flourish in the courts of our God.(U)
14 They will still bear fruit(V) in old age,
    they will stay fresh and green,
15 proclaiming, “The Lord is upright;
    he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.(W)”

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 92:1 In Hebrew texts 92:1-15 is numbered 92:2-16.
  2. Psalm 92:10 Horn here symbolizes strength.

Cross references

  1. Psalm 92:1 : S Ps 27:6
  2. Psalm 92:1 : S Ps 9:2; 147:1
  3. Psalm 92:1 : Ps 135:3
  4. Psalm 92:2 : S Ps 55:17
  5. Psalm 92:3 : S Ps 71:22
  6. Psalm 92:3 : S 1Sa 10:5; S Ne 12:27; S Ps 33:2; 81:2
  7. Psalm 92:4 : S Ps 5:11; 27:6
  8. Psalm 92:4 : S Ps 8:6; 111:7; 143:5
  9. Psalm 92:5 : S Job 36:24; Rev 15:3
  10. Psalm 92:5 : Ps 40:5; 139:17; Isa 28:29; 31:2; Ro 11:33
  11. Psalm 92:6 : S Ps 73:22
  12. Psalm 92:7 : S Ps 37:2
  13. Psalm 92:9 : S Ps 45:5
  14. Psalm 92:9 : S Ps 68:1; S 89:10
  15. Psalm 92:10 : S Ps 89:17
  16. Psalm 92:10 : S Ps 29:6
  17. Psalm 92:10 : S Ps 23:5
  18. Psalm 92:11 : S Ps 54:7; 91:8
  19. Psalm 92:12 : S Ps 72:7
  20. Psalm 92:12 : S Ps 1:3; 52:8; Jer 17:8; Hos 14:6
  21. Psalm 92:13 : Ps 135:2
  22. Psalm 92:14 : S Ps 1:3; S Jn 15:2
  23. Psalm 92:15 : S Job 34:10
Proverbs 11:23-30

23 The desire of the righteous ends only in good,
    but the hope of the wicked only in wrath.

24 One person gives freely, yet gains even more;
    another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.

25 A generous(A) person will prosper;
    whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.(B)

26 People curse the one who hoards grain,
    but they pray God’s blessing on the one who is willing to sell.

27 Whoever seeks good finds favor,
    but evil comes to one who searches for it.(C)

28 Those who trust in their riches will fall,(D)
    but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.(E)

29 Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind,
    and the fool will be servant to the wise.(F)

30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,(G)
    and the one who is wise saves lives.

Cross references

  1. Proverbs 11:25 : 1Ch 29:17; Isa 32:8
  2. Proverbs 11:25 : Pr 22:9; 2Co 9:6-9
  3. Proverbs 11:27 : Ps 7:15-16
  4. Proverbs 11:28 : Job 31:24-28; S Ps 49:6; S 52:7; 62:10; Jer 9:23; 48:7
  5. Proverbs 11:28 : Ps 52:8; 92:12-14
  6. Proverbs 11:29 : Pr 14:19
  7. Proverbs 11:30 : S Ge 2:9; S Pr 10:11
Matthew 13:10-17

10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”

11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven(A) has been given to you,(B) but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.(C) 13 This is why I speak to them in parables:

“Though seeing, they do not see;
    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.(D)

14 In them is fulfilled(E) the prophecy of Isaiah:

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
    they hardly hear with their ears,
    and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,
    understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’[a](F)

16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.(G) 17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see(H) but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:15 Isaiah 6:9,10 (see Septuagint)

Cross references

  1. Matthew 13:11 : S Mt 3:2
  2. Matthew 13:11 : Mt 11:25; 16:17; 19:11; Jn 6:65; 1Co 2:10, 14; Col 1:27; 1Jn 2:20, 27
  3. Matthew 13:12 : S Mt 25:29
  4. Matthew 13:13 : Dt 29:4; Jer 5:21; Eze 12:2
  5. Matthew 13:14 : ver 35; S Mt 1:22
  6. Matthew 13:15 : Isa 6:9, 10; Jn 12:40; Ac 28:26, 27; Ro 11:8
  7. Matthew 13:16 : Mt 16:17
  8. Matthew 13:17 : Jn 8:56; Heb 11:13; 1Pe 1:10-12
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