Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

130 Out of the deep places have I called to You, O LORD.

² LORD, hear my voice. Let Your ears attend to the voice of my prayers.

³ If You, O LORD, straightly mark iniquities, O LORD, who shall stand?

⁴ But mercy is with You, so that You may be feared.

⁵ I have waited on the LORD. My soul has waited; and I have trusted in His word.

⁶ My soul waits on the LORD more than the morning watch watches for the morning.

⁷ Let Israel wait on the LORD, for with the LORD is mercy and with Him is great redemption.

⁸ And He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities. A song of degrees, or Psalm, of Solomon

²⁵ Now in all Israel, there was no one to be praised as much for beauty as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the top of his head there was no blemish on him.

²⁶ And when he shaved his head (for he shaved it at the end of every year because it was too heavy for him, therefore he shaved it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels by the king’s weight.

²⁷ And Absalom had three sons and one daughter, named Tamar, who was a fair woman to look upon.

²⁸ So, Absalom dwelt in Jerusalem for the span of two years and did not see the king’s face.

²⁹ Therefore, Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king. But he would not come to him. And when he sent for him again, he would not come.

³⁰ Therefore, he said to his servants, “Behold, Joab has a field by my place, and has barley in it. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

³¹ Then Joab arose and came to Absalom, to his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants burnt my field with fire?”

³² And Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent for you, saying, ‘Come here, and I will send you to the king to say “Why have I come from Geshur? It would have been better for me to have still been there.”’ Now, therefore, let me see the king’s face. And if there is any trespass in me, let him kill me.”

³³ Then Joab came to the king and told him. And he called for Absalom, who came to the king and bowed himself to the ground on his face before the king. And the king kissed Absalom.

6 Brothers, even if a man should be overcome in some offense, you who are spiritual restore such one with the spirit of humility, considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

² Bear one another’s burden, and so fulfill the Law of Christ.

³ For if anyone seems to himself something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

⁴ But let everyone test his own work. And then shall he boast in himself only and not in another.

⁵ For everyone shall bear his own burden.

⁶ Let the one who is taught in the Word make the one who has taught him a partaker of all good things.

⁷ Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap.

⁸ For the one who sows to his flesh, shall reap destruction of the flesh. But the one who sows to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

⁹ Let us not, therefore, be weary of well-doing. For in due season we shall reap, if we do not grow weary.

¹⁰ Therefore, while we have time, let us do good to all; and now especially to those who are of the household of the faith.