Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

55 All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price.

² Why do you spend money for that which is not breed, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness.

³ Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

⁴ Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, for a leader and a master to the Gentiles.

⁵ Behold thou shalt call a nation, which thou knewest not: and the nations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.

⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

⁹ For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.

63 Unto the end, a psalm for David.

² Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.

³ Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.

⁴ For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

⁵ To shoot in secret the undefiled.

⁶ They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?

⁷ They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

⁸ And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:

10 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.

² And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud, and in the sea:

³ And did all eat the same spiritual food,

⁴ And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.)

⁵ But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

⁶ Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things as they also coveted.

⁷ Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

⁸ Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

⁹ Neither let us tempt Christ: as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents.

¹⁰ Neither do you murmur: as some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

¹¹ Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

¹² Wherefore he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.

¹³ Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

13 And there were present, at that very time, some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

² And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such things?

³ No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

⁴ Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe, and slew them: think you, that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

⁵ No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

⁶ He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

⁷ And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it done therefore: why cumbereth it the ground?

⁸ But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it, and dung it.

⁹ And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.