Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
A Plea for Deliverance
For the choir director. A psalm of David.
13 How long, Lord? Will you forget me for ever?
How long will you hide your face from me?(A)
2 How long will I store up anxious concerns[a] within me,
agony in my mind every day?
How long will my enemy dominate me?(B)
3 Consider me and answer, Lord my God.
Restore brightness to my eyes;(C)
otherwise, I will sleep in death.
4 My enemy will say, ‘I have triumphed over him,’
and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.(D)
5 But I have trusted in your faithful love;(E)
my heart will rejoice in your deliverance.(F)
6 I will sing to the Lord
because he has treated me generously.(G)
The Lord Appears to Isaac
23 From there he went up to Beer-sheba, 24 and the Lord appeared to him that night and said, ‘I am the God of your father Abraham.(A) Do not be afraid, for I am with you.(B) I will bless you and multiply your offspring because of my servant Abraham.’
25 So he built an altar there,(C) called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. Isaac’s servants also dug a well there.(D)
Warnings from Jesus
17 He(A) said to his disciples, ‘Offences will certainly come,[a] but woe(B) to the one through whom they come!(C) 2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble.(D) 3 Be(E) on your guard. If your brother sins,[b] rebuke(F) him, and if he repents, forgive(G) him. 4 And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and comes back to you seven times, saying, “I repent,” you must forgive him.’
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