Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

40 I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me and heard my cry.

² He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings.

³ And He hath put a new song in my mouth; even praise unto our God; many shall see it and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.

⁴ Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

⁵ Many, O Lord my God, are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done; and Thy thoughts which are directed toward us, they cannot be reckoned up in order unto Thee. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

⁶ Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not desire; mine ears hast Thou opened; burnt offering and sin offering hast Thou not required.

⁷ Then said I, “Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me:

⁸ I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is within my heart.”

⁹ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo, I have not restrained my lips, O Lord, Thou knowest.

¹⁰ I have not hid Thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared Thy faithfulness and Thy salvation; I have not concealed Thy lovingkindness and Thy truth from the great congregation.

¹¹ Withhold not Thou Thy tender mercies from me, O Lord; let Thy lovingkindness and Thy truth continually preserve me.

¹⁹ So he departed from thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth; and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

²⁰ And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee.” And he said unto him, “Go back again, for what have I done to thee?”

²¹ And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slew them and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

5 And it came to pass that, as the people pressed upon Him to hear the Word of God, He stood by the Lake of Gennesaret

² and saw two boats standing by the lake, but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets.

³ And He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the people from the boat.

⁴ Now when He was through speaking, He said unto Simon, “Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draft.”

⁵ And Simon answering said unto Him, “Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing. Nevertheless, at Thy word I will let down the net.”

⁶ And when they had done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net began to break.

⁷ And they beckoned unto their partners, who were in the other boat, that they should come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.

⁸ When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”

⁹ For he was astonished, and all those who were with him, at the draft of the fishes which they had taken;

¹⁰ and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, “Fear not. From henceforth thou shalt catch men.”

¹¹ And when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed Him.