Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

85 A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

² Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee.

³ Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day.

⁴ Give joy to the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul.

⁵ For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.

⁶ Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer: and attend to the voice of my petition.

⁷ I have called upon thee in the day of my trouble: because thou hast heard me.

⁸ There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is none according to thy works.

⁹ All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.

¹⁰ For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

¹¹ Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.

¹² I will praise thee, O Lord my God: with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever:

¹³ For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

¹⁴ O God, the wicked are risen up against me, and the assembly of the mighty have sought my soul: and they have not set thee before their eyes.

¹⁵ And thou, O Lord, art a God of compassion, and merciful, patient, and of much mercy, and true.

¹⁶ O look upon me, and have mercy on me: give thy command to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.

¹⁷ shew me a token for good: that they who hate me may see, and be confounded, because thou, O Lord, hast helped me and hast comforted me.

¹¹ And the children of Juda, and the children of Israel shall be gathered together: and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great is the day of Jezrahel.

2 Say ye to your brethren: You are my people, and to your sister: Thou hast obtained mercy.

² Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts.

³ Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through, and will kill her with drought.

⁴ And I will not have mercy on her children: for they are the children of fornications.

⁵ For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink.

⁶ Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.

⁷ And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them: and she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will go, and return to my first husband, because it was better with me then, than now.

⁸ And she did not know that I gave her corn and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.

⁹ Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its season, and I will set at liberty my wool, and my flax, which covered her disgrace.

¹⁰ And now I will lay open her folly in the eyes of her lovers: and no man shall deliver her out of my hand:

¹¹ And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.

¹² And I will destroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my rewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour her.

¹³ And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

¹⁴ Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the wilderness: and I will speak to her heart.

¹⁵ And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place, and the valley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there according to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt.

²² And it came to pass on a certain day that he went into a little ship with his disciples, and he said to them: Let us go over to the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.

²³ And when they were sailing, he slept; and there came down a storm of wind upon the lake, and they were filled, and were in danger.

²⁴ And they came and awaked him, saying: Master, we perish. But he arising, rebuked the wind and the rage of the water; and it ceased, and there was a calm.

²⁵ And he said to them: Where is your faith? Who being afraid, wondered, saying one to another: Who is this, (think you), that he commandeth both the winds and the sea, and they obey him?