Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
88 O LORD, God of My Salvation, I cry day and night before You.
2 Let my prayer enter into Your presence. Incline Your ear to my cry.
3 For my soul is filled with evils and my life draws near to the grave.
4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; and am as a man without strength,
5 Free among the dead, like the fatally wounded laying in the grave when You remember no more; and they are cut off from Your hand.
6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deep.
7 Your indignation lies upon me; and You have troubled me with all Your waves. Selah.
8 You have put away my acquaintances far from me and made me to be abhorred by them. I am shut up and cannot get out.
9 My eye is sorrowful through my affliction. LORD, I call daily upon You. I stretch out my hands to You.
10 Will You show a miracle to the dead? Or shall the dead rise and praise You? Selah.
11 Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, or Your faithfulness in destruction?
12 Shall Your wondrous works be known in the dark; and Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
13 But to You I have cried, O LORD, and my prayer shall come before You early.
14 LORD, why do You reject my soul and hide Your face from me?
15 I am afflicted and at the point of death. From youth I have doubted, suffering Your terrors.
16 Your indignations go over me and Your fear has cut me off.
17 They came all around me daily like water and encircled me altogether.
18 You have put away my lovers and friends from me. My acquaintances hid themselves. A Psalm to give instruction, of Ethan the Ezrahite
20 About that time, Hezekiah was sick to death. And the Prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Put your house in order. For you shall die, and not live.’”
2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying,
3 “O LORD, I pray, remember now how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 And before Isaiah had gone out into the middle of the court, the Word of the LORD came to him, saying:
5 “Turn back and tell Hezekiah, the captain of My people, ‘Thus says the LORD God of David, your father: “I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. Behold, I have healed you. On the third day, you shall go up to the House of the LORD.
6 “And I will add fifteen years to your days and will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city for My own sake, and for David My servant’s sake.”’”
7 Then Isaiah said, “Take a lump of dry figs.” And they took it and laid it on the boil. And he recovered.
8 (For Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the House of the LORD on the third day?”
9 And Isaiah answered, “Which sign would you prefer from the LORD, that the LORD will do what He has spoken: that the shadow go forward ten degrees or go back ten degrees?”
10 And Hezekiah answered, “It is a small thing for the shadow to pass forward ten degrees. So, not that. But let the shadow go back ten degrees.”
11 And Isaiah the Prophet called to the LORD; and He brought back the shadow ten degrees by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.)
14 And when He came to His disciples, He saw a great multitude around them, and the scribes disputing with them.
15 And immediately all the people, when they saw Him, were amazed and ran to Him and greeted Him.
16 Then He asked the scribes, “What are you disputing among yourselves?”
17 And one of the crowd answered, and said, “Master, I have brought my son to You, who has a mute spirit!
18 And wherever I have taken him, the spirit has seized him. And he foams and gnashes his teeth and pines away. And I asked Your disciples to cast him out and they could not.”
19 Then Jesus answered him, and said, “O faithless generation! How long now shall I be with you? How long now shall I put up with you?! Bring him to Me.”
20 So they brought him to Jesus. And as soon as the spirit saw Him, he seized the child. And he fell down on the ground wallowing and foaming.
21 Then He asked his father, “How long has he been this way?” And he said, “His whole childhood.
22 “And often he casts him into the fire, or into the water, to destroy him. But if You can do anything, help us and have compassion upon us.”
23 And Jesus said to him, “If you can believe it, all things are possible to the one who believes.”
24 And immediately the father of the child, crying with tears, said, “Lord, I believe! Help my unbelief!”
25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You dumb and deaf spirit, I command you come out of him! And enter into him no more!”
26 Then the spirit cried, and seized the child again, and came out. And the child was as one dead; so much so that many said, “He is dead.”
27 But Jesus took his hand and lifted him up. And he arose.
28 And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him secretly, “Why couldn’t we cast him out?”
29 And He said to them, “This kind can come forth by no other means but prayer and fasting.”
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