Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

77 My voice came to God when I cried. My voice came to God and He heard me.

² On the day of my trouble, I sought the LORD. My hand did not cease in the night. My soul refused comfort.

³ I thought upon God and was troubled. I prayed, and my spirit was full of anguish. Selah.

⁴ You keep my eyes awake. I was astonished and could not speak.

⁵ I considered the days of old, the years of ancient time.

⁶ I called to remembrance my song in the night. I communed with my own heart; and my spirit searched diligently.

⁷ Will the LORD be absent forever? And will He show no more favor?

⁸ Has His mercy ceased forever? Does His promise fail forevermore?

⁹ Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has He shut up His tender mercies in displeasure? Selah.

¹⁰ And I said, “This is my death.” Yet, I remembered the years of the right hand of the Most High.

¹¹ I remembered the works of the LORD. Certainly, I remembered Your wonders of old.

¹² I will also meditate on all Your works and talk of Your acts.

¹³ Your way, O God, is in the Sanctuary. Who is so great a God as our God!

¹⁴ You are the God Who does wonders. You have declared Your power among the people.

¹⁵ You have redeemed Your people with Your arm, even the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

¹⁶ The waters saw You, O God. The waters saw You and were afraid. Indeed, the depths trembled.

¹⁷ The clouds poured out water. The heavens gave a sound. Indeed, Your arrows went all over.

¹⁸ The voice of Your thunder was all round. The lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook.

¹⁹ Your way is in the sea, Your paths in the great waters; and Your footsteps are not known.

²⁰ You led Your people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. A Psalm to give instruction, committed to Asaph

2 And when the LORD was ready to take up Elijah into Heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

² Then Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here. For the LORD has sent me to Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So, they came down to Bethel.

³ And the children of the Prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that the LORD will take away your master from over you this day?” And he said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”

⁴ Again, Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait here. For the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So, they came to Jericho.

⁵ And the children of the Prophets who were in Jericho came to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that the LORD will take away your master from over you this day?” And he said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”

⁶ Moreover, Elijah said to him, “Please wait here. For the LORD has sent me to Jordan.” But he said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So, they both went.

⁷ And fifty men of the sons of the Prophets went and stood on the other side, far off. And those two stood by Jordan.

⁸ Then, Elijah took his cloak and wrapped it up and struck the waters. And they were divided here and there. And the two of them went over on the dry land.

⁹ Now, when they had passed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please let your spirit be double upon me.”

¹⁰ And he said, “You have asked a hard thing. If, when I am taken from you, you see me, you shall have it so. But if not, it shall not be.”

¹¹ And as they went walking and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which separated the two of them. So, Elijah went up, in a whirlwind, into Heaven.

¹² And Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father! My father! The chariot of Israel and its horsemen!” And he no longer saw him. And he took his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

¹³ He also took up the cloak of Elijah which fell from him and returned and stood by the bank of Jordan.

¹⁴ Afterward, he took the cloak of Elijah which fell from him and struck the waters, and said, “Where is the LORD God of Elijah?” And so, he also, after he had struck the waters, so that they were divided this way and that way, went over, Elisha.

¹⁵ And when the children of the Prophets who were at Jericho saw him on the other side, they said, “The spirit of Elijah does rest on Elisha!” And they came to meet him, and fell to the ground before him,

¹⁶ and said to him, “Behold, now, there are fifty strong men with your servants. Please let them go and seek your master, if so be that the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.” But he said, “You shall not send.”

¹⁷ Still, they urged him until he was ashamed. Therefore, he said, “Send.” So, they sent fifty men, who looked for three days but did not find him.

¹⁸ Therefore they returned to him (for he waited in Jericho). And he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?”

²⁰ And in the morning, as they journeyed together, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.

²¹ Then Peter remembered and said to Him, “Master, behold, the fig tree which You cursed is withered.”

²² And Jesus answered, and said to them, “Have the faith of God.

²³ “For truly I say to you, that whoever shall say to this mountain, ‘Be taken away and cast into the sea’, and shall not waver in his heart but shall believe that those things which he says shall happen, whatever he says shall be done to you.

²⁴ “Therefore I say to you, whatever you desire when you pray, believe that you shall have it and it shall be done to you.

²⁵ “But when you shall stand and pray, forgive (if you have anything against anyone) that your Father also, Who is in Heaven, may forgive you your trespasses.