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Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with thematically matched Old and New Testament readings.
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Psalm 145:8-9

8 The Lord is merciful and compassionate;
he is patient[a] and demonstrates great loyal love.[b]
9 The Lord is good to all,
and has compassion on all he has made.[c]

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 145:8 tn Heb “slow to anger” (see Pss 86:15; 103:8).
  2. Psalm 145:8 tn Heb “and great of loyal love” (see Pss 86:15; 103:8).
  3. Psalm 145:9 tn Heb “and his compassion is over all his works.”
Psalm 145:14-21

14 [a] The Lord supports all who fall,
and lifts up all who are bent over.[b]
15 Everything looks to you in anticipation,[c]
and you provide them with food on a regular basis.[d]
16 You open your hand,
and fill every living thing with the food it desires.[e]
17 The Lord is just in all his actions,[f]
and exhibits love in all he does.[g]
18 The Lord is near all who cry out to him,
all who cry out to him sincerely.[h]
19 He satisfies the desire[i] of his loyal followers;[j]
he hears their cry for help and delivers them.
20 The Lord protects all those who love him,
but he destroys all the wicked.
21 My mouth will praise the Lord.[k]
Let all who live[l] praise his holy name forever.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 145:14 tc Psalm 145 is an acrostic psalm, with each successive verse beginning with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. However, in the traditional Hebrew (Masoretic) text of Psalm 145 there is no verse beginning with the letter nun. One would expect such a verse to appear as the fourteenth verse, between the (מ) (mem) and (ס) (samek) verses. Several ancient witnesses, including one medieval Hebrew manuscript, the Qumran scroll from cave 11, the LXX, and the Syriac, supply the missing (נ) (nun) verse, which reads as follows: “The Lord is reliable in all his words, and faithful in all his deeds.” One might paraphrase this as follows: “The Lord’s words are always reliable; his actions are always faithful.” Scholars are divided as to the originality of this verse. L. C. Allen argues for its inclusion on the basis of structural considerations (Psalms 101-150 [WBC], 294-95), but there is no apparent explanation for why, if original, it would have been accidentally omitted. The psalm may be a partial acrostic, as in Pss 25 and 34 (see M. Dahood, Psalms [AB], 3:335). The glaring omission of the nun line would have invited a later redactor to add such a line.
  2. Psalm 145:14 tn Perhaps “discouraged” (see Ps 57:6).
  3. Psalm 145:15 tn Heb “the eyes of all wait for you.”
  4. Psalm 145:15 tn Heb “and you give to them their food in its season” (see Ps 104:27).
  5. Psalm 145:16 tn Heb “[with what they] desire.”
  6. Psalm 145:17 tn Heb “in all his ways.”
  7. Psalm 145:17 tn Heb “and [is] loving in all his deeds.”
  8. Psalm 145:18 tn Heb “in truth.”
  9. Psalm 145:19 tn In this context “desire” refers to the followers’ desire to be delivered from wicked enemies.
  10. Psalm 145:19 tn Heb “the desire of those who fear him, he does.”
  11. Psalm 145:21 tn Heb “the praise of the Lord my mouth will speak.”
  12. Psalm 145:21 tn Heb “all flesh.”
Isaiah 44:1-5

The Lord Will Renew Israel

44 “Now, listen, Jacob my servant,
Israel whom I have chosen!”
2 This is what the Lord, the one who made you, says—
the one who formed you in the womb and helps you:
“Don’t be afraid, my servant Jacob,
Jeshurun,[a] whom I have chosen.
3 For I will pour water on the parched ground[b]
and cause streams to flow[c] on the dry land.
I will pour my Spirit on your offspring
and my blessing on your children.
4 They will sprout up like a tree in the grass,[d]
like poplars beside channels of water.
5 One will say, ‘I belong to the Lord,’
and another will use[e] the name ‘Jacob.’
One will write on his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’
and use the name ‘Israel.’”[f]

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 44:2 sn Jeshurun is a poetic name for Israel; it occurs here and in Deut 32:15; 33:5, 26.
  2. Isaiah 44:3 tn Heb “the thirsty.” Parallelism suggests that dry ground is in view (see “dry land” in the next line.)
  3. Isaiah 44:3 tn Heb “and streams”; KJV “floods.” The verb “cause…to flow” is supplied in the second line for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
  4. Isaiah 44:4 tn The Hebrew term בֵין (ven) is usually taken as a preposition, in which case one might translate, “among the grass.” But בֵין is probably the name of a tree (cf. C. R. North, Second Isaiah, 133). If one alters the preposition bet (בְּ) to kaf (כְּ), one can then read, “like a binu-tree.” (The Qumran scroll 1QIsaa supports this reading.) This forms a nice parallel to “like poplars” in the next line. חָצִיר (khatsir) is functioning as an adverbial accusative of location.
  5. Isaiah 44:5 tn The Hebrew text has a Qal verb form, “and another will call by the name of Jacob.” With support from Symmachus (an ancient Greek textual witness), some read the Niphal, “and another will be called by the name of Jacob.”
  6. Isaiah 44:5 tn Heb “and by the name of Israel he will title.” Some, with support from several ancient versions, prefer to change the Piel (active) verb form to a Pual (passive), “and he will be titled by the name of Israel.”
Matthew 7:7-11

Ask, Seek, Knock

7 “Ask[a] and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door[b] will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks[c] receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 Is[d] there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?[e] 11 If you then, although you are evil,[f] know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts[g] to those who ask him!

Footnotes

  1. Matthew 7:7 tn The three present imperatives in this verse are best viewed as iterative (Wallace, ExSyn 722, lists the verse as an example of this usage), calling for repeated action.sn Many interpreters see the three present imperatives (Ask…seek…knock) as mainly limited to persistence in prayer (cf. v. 11), though others see them referring more generally to taking the initiative with God in various ways.
  2. Matthew 7:7 tn Grk “it”; the referent (a door) is implied by the context and has been specified in the translation here and in v. 8 for clarity.
  3. Matthew 7:8 sn The actions of asking, seeking, and knocking are repeated here from v. 7 with the additional encouragement that God does respond to such requests/actions.
  4. Matthew 7:9 tn Grk “Or is there.”
  5. Matthew 7:10 sn The two questions of vv. 9-10 use a construction in Greek that expects a negative answer: “No parent would do this!”
  6. Matthew 7:11 tn The participle ὄντες (ontes) has been translated as a concessive adverbial participle: in spite of the fact that the hearers are “evil,” they still know how to give “good gifts” to their own children (see also ExSyn 634).
  7. Matthew 7:11 sn The provision of the good gifts is probably a reference to the wisdom and guidance supplied in response to repeated requests. The teaching as a whole stresses not that we get everything we want, but that God gives the good that we need.
New English Translation (NET)

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