Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁰ And God saw their works, that they were turned from their evil way: and God had mercy with regard to the evil which he had said that he would do to them, and he did it not.

4 And Jonas was exceedingly troubled, and was angry:

² And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.

³ And now, O Lord, I beseech thee take my life from me: for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁴ And the Lord said: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry?

⁵ Then Jonas went out of the city, and sat toward the east side of the city: and he made himself a booth there, and he sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would befall the city.

⁶ And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, and to cover him (for he was fatigued): and Jonas was exceeding glad of the ivy.

⁷ But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following day: and it struck the ivy and it withered.

⁸ And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul that he might die, and said: It is better for me to die than to live.

⁹ And the Lord said to Jonas: Dost thou think thou hast reason to be angry, for the ivy? And he said: I am angry with reason even unto death.

¹⁰ And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.

¹¹ And shall not I spare Ninive, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that know not how to distinguish between their right hand and their left, and many beasts?

145 Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias.

² Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be. Put not your trust in princes:

³ In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

⁴ His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.

⁵ Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

⁶ Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.

⁷ Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:

⁸ The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.

²¹ For to me, to live is Christ; and to die is gain.

²² And if to live in the flesh, this is to me the fruit of labour, and what I shall choose I know not.

²³ But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.

²⁴ But to abide still in the flesh, is needful for you.

²⁵ And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, and continue with you all, for your furtherance and joy of faith:

²⁶ That your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus for me, by my coming to you again.

²⁷ Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for the faith of the gospel.

²⁸ And in nothing be ye terrified by the adversaries: which to them is a cause of perdition, but to you of salvation, and this from God:

²⁹ For unto you it is given for Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him.

³⁰ Having the same conflict as that which you have seen in me, and now have heard of me.

20 The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

² And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

³ And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle.

⁴ And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just.

⁵ And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner.

⁶ But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?

⁷ They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard.

⁸ And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first.

⁹ When therefore they were come, that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

¹⁰ But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: and they also received every man a penny.

¹¹ And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,

¹² Saying: These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats.

¹³ But he answering said to one of them: Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny?

¹⁴ Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee.

¹⁵ Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? is thy eye evil, because I am good?

¹⁶ So shall the last be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.