Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Morning Prayer of Trust in God.
A Psalm of David, when [a]he fled from his son Absalom.
3 Lord, how (A)my enemies have increased!
Many are rising up against me.
2 Many are saying of my soul,
“There is no (B)salvation for him in God.” Selah
3 But You, Lord, are (C)a shield around me,
My (D)glory, and the One who (E)lifts my head.
4 I was crying out to the Lord with my voice,
And He (F)answered me from (G)His holy [b]mountain. Selah
5 [c]I (H)lay down and slept;
I awoke, for the Lord sustains me.
6 I will (I)not be afraid of ten thousands of people
Who have (J)set themselves against me all around.
12 “Woe to him who (A)builds a city with bloodshed,
And founds a town with [a]violence!
13 Is it not indeed from the Lord of armies
That peoples (B)labor merely for fire,
And nations become weary for nothing?
14 For the earth will be (C)filled
With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
As the waters cover the sea.
15 “Woe to him who makes his neighbor drink;
[b]To you who mix in your venom even to make your neighbors drunk,
So as to look at their genitalia!
16 You will be filled with disgrace rather than honor.
(D)Drink, you yourself, and [c]expose your own foreskin!
The (E)cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you,
And (F)utter disgrace will come upon your glory.
17 For the (G)violence [d]done to Lebanon will [e]overwhelm you,
And the devastation of its animals [f]by which you terrified them,
(H)Because of human bloodshed and (I)violence [g]done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.
18 “What (J)benefit is a carved image when its maker has carved it,
Or a cast metal image, a (K)teacher of falsehood?
For its maker (L)trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.
19 Woe to him who (M)says to a piece of wood, ‘(N)Awake!’
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
That is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with (O)gold and silver,
Yet there is (P)no breath at all inside it.
20 But the (Q)Lord is in His holy temple.
[h]Let all the earth (R)be silent before Him.”
12 (A)On the next day, when they had left Bethany, He became hungry. 13 Seeing from a distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if perhaps He would find anything on it; and when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. 14 And He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” And His disciples were listening.
20 (A)As they were passing by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up. 21 And being reminded, Peter *said to Him, “(B)Rabbi, look, the fig tree that You cursed has withered.” 22 And Jesus answered and *said to them, “(C)Have faith in God. 23 (D)Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted to him. 24 Therefore, I say to you, (E)all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted to you.
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