Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

71 In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be put to confusion.

² Deliver me in Thy righteousness, and cause me to escape; incline Thine ear unto me, and save me.

³ Be Thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort; Thou hast given commandment to save me, for Thou art my rock and my fortress.

⁴ Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

⁵ For Thou art my hope, O Lord God; Thou art my trust from my youth.

⁶ By Thee have I been held from the womb; Thou art He that took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise shall be continually of Thee.

1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

² to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

³ It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

¹¹ Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, “Jeremiah, what seest thou?” And I said, “I see a rod of an almond tree.”

¹² Then said the Lord unto me, “Thou hast well seen, for I will hasten My word to perform it.”

¹³ And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, “What seest thou?” And I said, “I see a seething pot, and the face thereof is toward the north.”

¹⁴ Then the Lord said unto me, “Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

¹⁵ For lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” saith the Lord; “and they shall come and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

¹⁶ And I will utter My judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

¹⁷ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise and speak unto them all that I command thee. Be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

¹⁸ For behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land — against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

¹⁹ And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee, for I am with thee,” saith the Lord, “to deliver thee.”

6 And it came to pass on the second Sabbath after the first, that He went through the cornfields. And His disciples plucked the ears of corn and, rubbing them in their hands, ate.

² And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, “Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath days?”

³ And Jesus answering them said, “Have ye not read so much as this, what David did when he himself hungered and they that were with him:

⁴ how he went into the house of God, and took and ate the showbread and gave also to them that were with him, which it is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?”

⁵ And He said unto them, “The Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.”