Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

146 Praise the LORD, O my soul!

² I will praise the LORD during my life. As long as I have any being, I will sing to my God.

³ Do not put your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, for there is no help in him.

⁴ His breath departs. He returns to his earth. Then, his thoughts perish.

⁵ Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob for his help; whose hope is in the LORD his God,

⁶ Who made Heaven and Earth, the sea, and all that therein is. Who keeps his fidelity forever.

⁷ Who executes justice for the oppressed, Who gives bread to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.

⁸ The LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD raises up the crooked. The LORD loves the righteous.

⁹ The LORD keeps the strangers. He relieves the fatherless and widow; but He overthrows the way of the wicked.

¹⁰ The LORD shall reign forever! O Zion, your God endures from generation to generation. Praise the LORD!

¹⁷ “You shall not pervert the right of the stranger or of the fatherless, nor take a widow’s clothes to pledge.

¹⁸ “But remember that you were a servant in Egypt, and how the LORD your God delivered you from there. Therefore, I command you to do this thing.

¹⁹ “When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to fetch it. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the works of your hands.

²⁰ “When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

²¹ “When you gather your vineyard, you shall not glean afterward. They shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

²² “And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt. Therefore, I command you to do this thing.”

¹² And the next day, on the way back from Bethany, He became hungry.

¹³ And seeing a fig tree at a distance which had leaves, He went to see if He might find anything on it. But when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves. For the time of figs was not yet.

¹⁴ Then Jesus answered, and said to it, “Never shall anyone eat fruit from you again while the world stands.” And His disciples heard it.

²⁰ And in the morning, as they journeyed together, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

²¹ Then Peter remembered and said to Him, “Master, behold, the fig tree which You cursed is withered.”

²² And Jesus answered, and said to them, “Have the faith of God.

²³ “For truly I say to you, that whoever shall say to this mountain, ‘Be taken away and cast into the sea’, and shall not waver in his heart but shall believe that those things which he says shall happen, whatever he says shall be done to you.

²⁴ “Therefore I say to you, whatever you desire when you pray, believe that you shall have it and it shall be done to you.