Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

6 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chastise me in Your wrath.

² Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am weak. O LORD, heal me, for my bones are vexed.

³ My soul is also very troubled. But LORD, how long will You delay?

⁴ Return, O LORD. Deliver my soul. Save me for Your mercy’s sake.

⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of You. In the grave, who shall praise You?

⁶ I fainted in my mourning. Every night I cause my bed to swim, and water my couch with my tears.

⁷ My eye is dimmed for grief, and sunk in because of all my enemies.

⁸ Away from me all you workers of iniquity. For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

⁹ The LORD has heard my petition. The LORD will receive my prayer.

¹⁰ All my enemies shall be confounded and very vexed. They shall be turned back and put to shame suddenly. Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush, the son of Benjamin.

6 And the children of the Prophets said to Elisha, “If you please, the place where we dwell with you is too small for us.

² “Let us now go to Jordan, so that every man may take a beam from there and make us a place to dwell.” And he answered, “Go.”

³ And one said, “Please agree to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I will go.”

⁴ So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.

⁵ And as one was cutting down a tree, the iron fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, “Alas master, for it was borrowed!”

⁶ And the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And he showed him the place. Then he cut down a piece of wood and cast it in there. And he caused the iron to float.

⁷ Then he said, “Pick it up for yourself.” And he stretched out his hand and took it.

¹³ “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁴ “Therefore it shall be easier for Tyre and Sidon at the Judgment than for you.

¹⁵ “And you, Capernaum, who is exalted to Heaven, shall be thrust down to Hades.

¹⁶ “The one who hears you, hears Me. And the one who despises you, despises Me. And the one who despises Me, despises Him Who sent Me.”