Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
131 LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor are my eyes lofty, nor have I proceeded in great matters and things hidden from me.
2 Surely, I have behaved like one weaned from his mother and kept silent. In myself, I am as one who is weaned.
3 Let Israel wait on the LORD from henceforth and forever. A song of degrees
26 On that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city, God shall set salvation for walls and bulwarks.
2 “Open the gates so that the righteous nation, which keeps the truth, may enter in.
3 “By an assured purpose will You preserve perfect peace, because they trusted in You.
4 “Trust in the LORD forever, For in the LORD God is strength forevermore.
5 “For He will bring down those who dwell on high, The high city He will lay low, He will cast it down to the ground and bring it to dust.
6 “The foot shall tread it down, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.
25 But I thought it necessary to send to you my brother, fellow laborer, and fellow soldier, Epaphroditus (who is now your messenger and minister to my needs).
26 For he longed after all of you, and was full of heaviness, because you had heard that he had been sick.
27 And no doubt he was sick, very near to death. But God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, so that I should not have sorrow upon sorrow.
28 Therefore, I sent him all the more speedily, so that when you would see him again you might rejoice and I might be the less sorrowful.
29 Therefore, receive him in the Lord with all joy. And value such men highly.
30 Because he was near death for the work of Christ and did not regard his life, to fulfill that service which was lacking on your part toward me.
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