Psalm 69:1–4, 8–9, 24, 29–30

¹Save me, O God!
For the waters have come up to my neck.
²I sink in deep mire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood sweeps over me.
³I am weary with my crying out;
my throat is parched.
My eyes grow dim
with waiting for my God.
⁴More in number than the hairs of my head
are those who hate me without cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
those who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal
must I now restore?

⁸I have become a stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons.
⁹For zeal for your house has consumed me,
and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

²⁴Pour out your indignation upon them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.

²⁹But I am afflicted and in pain;
let your salvation, O God, set me on high!
³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song;
I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Old Testament Reading Job 5

¹“Call now; is there anyone who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
²Surely vexation kills the fool,
and jealousy slays the simple.
³I have seen the fool taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
⁴His children are far from safety;
they are crushed in the gate,
and there is no one to deliver them.
⁵The hungry eat his harvest,
and he takes it even out of thorns,
and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
⁶For affliction does not come from the dust,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
⁷but man is born to trouble
as the sparks fly upward.
⁸“As for me, I would seek God,
and to God would I commit my cause,
⁹who does great things and unsearchable,
marvelous things without number:
¹⁰he gives rain on the earth
and sends waters on the fields;
¹¹he sets on high those who are lowly,
and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
¹²He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.
¹³He catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
¹⁴They meet with darkness in the daytime
and grope at noonday as in the night.
¹⁵But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth
and from the hand of the mighty.
¹⁶So the poor have hope,
and injustice shuts her mouth.
¹⁷“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves;
therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
¹⁸For he wounds, but he binds up;
he shatters, but his hands heal.
¹⁹He will deliver you from six troubles;
in seven no evil shall touch you.
²⁰In famine he will redeem you from death,
and in war from the power of the sword.
²¹You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue,
and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
²²At destruction and famine you shall laugh,
and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
²³For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,
and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
²⁴You shall know that your tent is at peace,
and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
²⁵You shall know also that your offspring shall be many,
and your descendants as the grass of the earth.
²⁶You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,
like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
²⁷Behold, this we have searched out; it is true.
Hear, and know it for your good.”

New Testament Reading John 2:13–25

¹³The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. ¹⁵And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” ¹⁷His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

¹⁸So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?” ¹⁹Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” ²⁰The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” ²¹But he was speaking about the temple of his body. ²²When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

²³Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. ²⁴But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people ²⁵and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.