Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying:

⁹ Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.

¹⁰ He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

¹¹ And when she was going to fetch it he called after her, saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.

¹² And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruse: behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

¹³ And Elias said to her: Fear not, but go, and do as thou hast said: but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring it to me: and after make for thyself and thy son.

¹⁴ For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruse of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth.

¹⁵ She went and did according to the word of Elias: and he ate, and she, and her house: and from that day

¹⁶ The pot of meal wasted not, and the cruse of oil was not diminished, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke in the hand of Elias.

146 Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise.

² The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel.

³ Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.

⁴ Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names.

⁵ Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.

⁶ The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even to the ground.

⁷ Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp.

⁸ Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the service of men.

⁹ Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

¹⁰ He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take pleasure in the legs of a man.

¹¹ The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy.

²⁴ For Jesus is not entered into the holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.

²⁵ Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holies, every year with the blood of others:

²⁶ For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world: but now once at the end of ages, he hath appeared for the destruction of sin, by the sacrifice of himself.

²⁷ And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

²⁸ So also Christ was offered once to exhaust the sins of many; the second time he shall appear without sin to them that expect him unto salvation.

³⁸ And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in long robes, and to be saluted in the marketplace,

³⁹ And to sit in the first chairs, in the synagogues, and to have the highest places at suppers:

⁴⁰ Who devour the houses of widows under the pretence of long prayer: these shall receive greater judgment.

⁴¹ And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much.

⁴² And there came a certain poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing.

⁴³ And calling his disciples together, he saith to them: Amen I say to you, this poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast into the treasury.

⁴⁴ For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want cast in all she had, even her whole living.