Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

14 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They have corrupted; and done an abominable work. There is no one who does good.

² The LORD looked down from Heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any who would understand, and seek God.

³ All have gone out of the way. They are all corrupt. There is no one who does good; no, not one.

⁴ Do not all the workers of iniquity know that they eat up my people as they eat bread? They do not call upon the LORD.

⁵ There they shall be taken with fear, because God is in the generation of the just.

⁶ You have shamed the counsel of the poor. But the LORD is his refuge.

⁷ Oh, give salvation to Israel out of Zion. When the LORD turns the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad. Note that Psalm 14:5-7, which are put into the common translation (and may seem to some to be left out here) are not in the same Psalm in the Hebrew text. Rather, they are put in more fully to express the manners of the wicked. They are gathered out of Psalms 5, 10, 36, 140, and Isaiah 59. They are alleged by Saint Paul and placed together in Romans 3. A Psalm of David.

¹³ Then Joab and the people who were with him joined in battle with the Aramites, who fled before him.

¹⁴ And when the children of Ammon saw that the Aramites fled, they also fled before Abishai and entered into the city. So, Joab returned from the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

¹⁵ And when the Aramites saw that they were stricken before Israel, they gathered themselves together.

¹⁶ And Hadarezer sent and brought out the Aramites who were beyond the river. And they came to Helam. And Shobach, the captain of the army of Hadadezer, went before them.

¹⁷ When it was told to David, they gathered all Israel together and passed over Jordan and came to Helam. And the Aramites set themselves in formation against David and fought with him.

¹⁸ And the Aramites fled before Israel. And David destroyed seven hundred chariots of the Aramites, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach, the captain of his army, who died there.

¹⁹ And when all the kings serving Hadadezer saw that they fell before Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them. And the Aramites were afraid to help the children of Ammon anymore.

³¹ Meanwhile, the disciples urged Him, saying, “Master, eat.”

³² But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you know not of.”

³³ Then the disciples said between themselves, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”

³⁴ Jesus said to them, “My food is that I may do the will of Him who sent Me and finish His work.

³⁵ “Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes harvest?’ Behold, I say to you lift up your eyes and look at the fields. For they are white toward harvest already.

³⁶ “And the one who reaps, receives reward, and gathers fruit to life eternal; that both the one who sows and the one who reaps might rejoice together.

³⁷ “For herein is the true saying: that one sows and another reaps.

³⁸ “I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Other men labored, and you have entered into their labors.”