Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
28 To You, O LORD, do I cry. O my strength, do not be deaf toward me; lest if You do not answer me, I be like those who go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my petitions when I cry to You, when I hold up my hands toward Your Holy Oracle.
3 Do not draw me away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity, who speak friendly to their neighbors when malice is in their hearts.
4 Reward them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Recompense them for the work of their hands. Render them their reward.
5 For they do not reward the works of the LORD, nor the operation of His hands. Break them down and do not build them up.
6 Praised be the LORD, for He has heard the voice of my petitions.
7 The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart trusted in Him, and I was helped. Therefore, my heart shall rejoice; and with my song I will praise Him.
8 The LORD is their strength; and He is the strength of the deliverances of His anointed.
9 Save Your people and bless Your inheritance. Feed them, also, and exalt them forever. A Psalm of David.
40 And after these things, the butler of the King of Egypt and his baker offended their Lord, the King of Egypt.
2 And Pharaoh was angry against his two officers: against the chief butler and against the chief baker.
3 Therefore, he put them in ward in his chief steward’s house, in the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
4 And the chief steward gave Joseph charge over them; and he served them. And they continued in ward for a season.
5 And they both dreamed a dream, each of them dreaming in one night, each dream having its own interpretation, both the butler and the baker of the King of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
6 And when Joseph came in to them in the morning, and looked upon them, behold, they were sad.
7 And he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in his master’s ward, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”
8 Who answered him, “We have each dreamed a dream; and there is no one to interpret it.” Then Joseph said to them, “Are not interpretations from God? Tell them to me now.”
9 So the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was before me.
10 “And in the vine were three branches. And as it budded, her flower came forth; and the clusters of grapes grew ripe.
11 “And I had Pharaoh’s cup in my hand; and I took the grapes and wrung them into Pharaoh’s cup. And I put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”
12 Then Joseph said to him, “This is the interpretation of it. The three branches are three days.
13 “Within three days, Pharaoh shall lift up your head and restore you to your office. And you shall put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, as you used to do when you were his butler.
14 “But, remember me when you are restored; and please show mercy to me and mention me to Pharaoh, so that you may bring me out of this house.”
15 “For I was stolen away, by theft, out of the land of the Hebrews; and here, also, I have done nothing that should cause them to put me in the dungeon.”
16 And when the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “Also, I thought in my dream that I had three white baskets on my head.
17 “And in the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh. And the birds ate them out of the basket upon my head.”
18 Then Joseph answered, and said, “This is the interpretation of it. The three baskets are three days.
19 “Within three days, Pharaoh shall take your head from you, and shall hang you on a tree; and the birds shall eat your flesh from off you.”
20 And so, the third day (Pharaoh’s birthday), he made a feast for all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief butler, and the chief baker, among his servants.
21 And he restored the chief butler to his butlership, who placed the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.
22 But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
23 Yet, the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
23 And when He had entered into the ship, His disciples followed Him.
24 And behold, there arose a storm in the sea, so that the ship was covered with waves. But He was asleep.
25 Then His disciples came and woke Him, saying, “Master, save us! We are perishing!”
26 And He said to them, “Why are you fearful? O you of little faith.” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea. And so, there was a great calm.
27 And the men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that both the winds and the sea obey Him?”
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