Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

75 We will praise You, O God! We will praise You, for Your Name is near! They will declare Your wondrous works.

² “When I shall take a convenient time, I will judge righteously.

³ “The Earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved; but I will establish the pillars of it. Selah.

⁴ “I said to the foolish, ‘Do not be so foolish,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn.

⁵ “‘Do not lift up your horn on High, nor speak with a stiff neck.’”

⁶ For exaltation is neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

⁷ But God is the judge. He makes low and He makes high.

⁸ For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, and the wine is foaming. It is fully mixed, and He pours out of the same. Surely, all the wicked of the Earth shall drain and drink the dregs thereof.

⁹ But I will declare forever and sing praises to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰ Also, all the horns of the wicked I will break. But the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. To him who excels on Neginoth: a Psalm, or song, committed to Asaph

4 And one of the wives of the sons of the Prophets cried to Elisha, saying, “Your servant, my husband, is dead! And you know that your servant feared the LORD! And the creditor has come to take my two sons to be his bondmen.”

² Then Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have at home?” And she said, “Your handmaid has nothing at home, except a pitcher of oil.”

³ And he said, “Go around and borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels, and not just a few.

⁴ “And when you have come in, you shall shut the door upon yourself and upon your sons, and pour out into all those vessels, and set aside those that are full.”

⁵ So she departed from him and shut the door upon herself and upon her sons. And they brought to her, and she poured out.

⁶ And when the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There are no more vessels.” And the oil ceased.

⁷ Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, “Go. Sell the oil and pay those to whom you are in debt, and you and your children live off the rest.”

¹⁶ “Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of the wolves. Therefore, be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

¹⁷ “But beware of men. For they will deliver you up to the councils and will scourge you in their synagogues.

¹⁸ “And you shall be brought to the governors and kings for My sake, in witness to them and to the Gentiles.

¹⁹ “But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak. For what you shall say will be given to you at that hour.

²⁰ “For it is not you who speak. But the Spirit of your Father speaks in you.

²¹ “And the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son. And the children shall rise against their parents and shall cause them to die.

²² “And you shall be hated by all for My Name. But the one who endures to the end, he shall be saved.

²³ “And when they persecute you in this city, flee into another. For truly I say to you, you shall not have completed all the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.

²⁴ “The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord.

²⁵ “It is enough for the disciple to be as his master is, and the servant as his Lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household?