Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

142 I cried to the LORD with my voice! With my voice I prayed to the LORD.

² I poured out my meditation before Him, declared my affection in His presence.

³ Though my spirit was overwhelmed in me, You still knew my path. They have secretly laid a snare for me in the way wherein I walk.

⁴ I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no one who knew me. All refuge failed me. No one cared for my soul.

⁵ I cried to You, O LORD, and said, “You are my Hope, my portion in the land of the living.

⁶ “Listen to my cry, for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

⁷ “Bring my soul out of prison, so that I may praise Your Name. The righteous shall surround me when You are beneficial to me.” A Psalm of David

¹⁵ “For the Day of the LORD upon all the heathen is near. As you have done, it shall be done to you. Your reward shall return upon your head.

¹⁶ “For as you have drunk upon My Holy Mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually. Indeed, they shall drink and swallow up. And they shall be as though they had not been.

¹⁷ “But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance. And it shall be holy. And the House of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

¹⁸ And the House of Jacob shall be a fire, and the House of Joseph a flame, and the House of Esau as stubble. And they shall kindle them and devour them. And there shall be no remnant of the House of Esau,” for the LORD has spoken it.

¹⁹ And they shall possess the southern side of the Mount of Esau and the plain of the Philistines. And they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria. And Benjamin shall have Gilead.

²⁰ And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel who were among the Canaanites shall possess to Zarephath. And the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South.

²¹ And those who shall save shall come up to Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau. And the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.

¹⁰ Then the disciples came, and said to Him, “Why did You speak to them in parables?”

¹¹ And He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven. But to them it is not given.

¹² “For whoever has, to him shall be given. And he shall have abundance. But whoever does not have, even that which he has shall be taken away from him.

¹³ “Therefore, I speak to them in parables. Because they, seeing, do not see. And hearing, they do not hear, nor understand.

¹⁴ “So in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled which says, ‘By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see and shall not perceive.

¹⁵ “‘For this people’s heart has grown fat and their ears barely hear and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their hearts and should return, that I might heal them.’

¹⁶ “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

¹⁷ “For truly I say to you that many Prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them.