Psalm 43

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Psalm 43^[a]

¹Vindicate me, God, and champion my cause
against an unfaithful nation;
rescue me from the deceitful and unjust person.^(A)
²For you are the God of my refuge.
Why have you rejected me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?^(B)

³Send your light and your truth; let them lead me.^(C)
Let them bring me to your holy mountain,
to your dwelling place.^(D)
⁴Then I will come to the altar of God,
to God, my greatest joy.^(E)
I will praise you with the lyre,
God, my God.^(F)

⁵Why, my soul, are you so dejected?
Why are you in such turmoil?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him,
my Savior and my God.^(G)

Footnotes

43:0 Many Hb mss connect Pss 42 and 43

Matthew 21:18-22

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The Barren Fig Tree

¹⁸Early in the morning,^(A) as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. ¹⁹Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it and found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” At once the fig tree withered.

²⁰When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”

²¹Jesus answered them, “Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you tell this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will be done.^(B) ²²And if you believe, you will receive^(C) whatever you ask for in prayer.”

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Jonah 1:17-2:10

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¹⁷The Lord appointed a great fish^(A) to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.^(B)

Jonah’s Prayer

2 Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish:^(C)

²I called to the Lord in my distress,^(D)
and he answered me.
I cried out for help from deep inside^[a] Sheol;^(E)
you heard my voice.^(F)
³When you threw me into the depths,^(G)
into the heart of the seas,^(H)
the current^[b] overcame me.
All your breakers and your billows swept over me.^(I)
⁴And I said, “I have been banished^(J)
from your sight,^(K)
yet I will look^[c] once more
toward your holy temple.”^(L)
⁵The water engulfed me up to the neck;^[d]^(M)
the watery depths overcame me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.^(N)
⁶I sank to the foundations of the mountains,^(O)
the earth’s gates shut behind me forever!^(P)
Then you raised my life^(Q) from the Pit, Lord my God!^(R)
⁷As my life was fading away,^(S)
I remembered the Lord,^(T)
and my prayer came to you,^(U)
to your holy temple.^(V)
⁸Those who cherish worthless idols^(W)
abandon their faithful love,^(X)
⁹but as for me, I will sacrifice^(Y) to you
with a voice of thanksgiving.^(Z)
I will fulfill^(AA) what I have vowed.
Salvation^[e] belongs to the Lord.^(AB)

¹⁰Then the Lord commanded the fish,^(AC) and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Footnotes

2:2 Lit from the stomach of
2:3 Lit river
2:4 LXX reads sight. Will I look...?
2:5 Or me, threatening my life
2:9 Or Deliverance

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