Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.

¹ ¶ It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

² To show forth thy mercy in the morning and thy faithfulness every night

³ upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the psaltery, upon the harp with a pleasant sound.

⁴ For thou, O LORD, hast made me glad with thy work; I will delight in the works of thy hands.

¹² The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³ Those that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴ They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be vigorous and flourishing

¹⁵ to show that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

14 ¶ In the second year of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign.

² He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign and reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

³ And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father; he did according to all things as Joash his father did.

⁴ With all this, the high places were not taken away; as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

⁵ And as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, he slew his slaves which had slain the king, his father.

⁶ But the sons of those who had slain him he slew not; according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but each one shall die for their own sin.

⁷ He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand and took Selah by war and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.

⁸ ¶ Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look each other in the face.

⁹ And Jehoash, the king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, this reply, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the wild beasts that were in Lebanon passed by and trode down the thistle.

¹⁰ Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up; glory in this, but tarry at home. Why should thou meddle in evil that thou should fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

¹¹ But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash, king of Israel, went up; and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, looked each other in the face at Bethshemesh, which is in Judah.

¹² But Judah fell before Israel, and they fled each man to their tents.

¹³ Furthermore, Jehoash, king of Israel, took Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh and came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

¹⁴ And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasury of the king’s house and the sons as hostages and returned to Samaria.

4 ¶ And he began again to teach by the sea side, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship and sat in the sea, and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

² And he taught them many things by parables and said unto them in his doctrine,

³ Hearken; Behold, the sower went out to sow;

⁴ and it came to pass as he sowed some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.

⁵ And some fell on stony ground where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth;

⁶ but when the sun was up, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it withered away.

⁷ And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

⁸ And other fell on good ground and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased and brought forth: some thirty and some sixty and some a hundred.

⁹ And he said unto them, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁰ And when he was alone, those that were close to him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

¹¹ And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but unto those that are without, all these things are done in parables,

¹² that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

¹³ And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? How then will ye understand all the parables?

¹⁴ The sower is he who sows the word.

¹⁵ And these are those by the way side, in whom the word is sown, but when they have heard, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts.

¹⁶ And likewise these are those who are sown on stony ground, who when they have heard the word immediately receive it with gladness

¹⁷ but have no root in themselves and are temporal; afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.

¹⁸ And these are those who are sown among thorns, such as hear the word,

¹⁹ and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

²⁰ And these are those who are sown in good ground, such as hear the word and receive it and bring forth fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.