Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Psalm 6

Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger

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For the choir director. With stringed instruments.
According to sheminith.^[a] A psalm by David.

Anxious Prayer

Confident Trust

An Ax Floats

6 The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we are living with you is too cramped for us. ² Let’s go to the Jordan, and every one of us will get a wooden beam from there so we can build a place there for us to live.”

He said, “Go ahead.”

³ Then one of them said, “Won’t you also please come along with your servants?”

He said, “I will come.” ⁴ So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down trees. ⁵ But while one of them was cutting down a tree for a beam, the ax fell into the water.

He cried out, “Oh no, my lord! It was borrowed!”

⁶ But the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” Then he showed him the place. He cut off a piece of wood and threw it into the water, and the ax floated.

⁷ Then he said, “Pick it up.” So he reached out his hand and took it.

¹³ “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. ¹⁴ But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. ¹⁵ And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to hell.^{[a] 16} Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”