Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

85 LORD, You have been favorable to Your land. You have brought back the captives of Jacob.

² You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people and covered all their sins. Selah.

³ You have withdrawn all Your anger and have turned back from the fierceness of Your wrath.

⁴ Turn us, O God of Our Salvation, and release Your anger toward us.

⁵ Will You be angry with us forever? Will You prolong Your wrath from one generation to another?

⁶ Will You not turn again and quicken us, so that Your people may rejoice in You?

⁷ Show us Your mercy, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation.

⁸ I will listen to what the LORD God will say. For He will speak peace to His people, and to His saints, so that they do not turn again to folly.

⁹ Surely, His salvation is near to those who fear Him, so that glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰ Mercy and truth shall meet, righteousness and peace shall kiss.

¹¹ Truth shall bud out of the Earth and righteousness shall look down from Heaven.

¹² Indeed, the LORD shall give good things and our land shall give her increase.

¹³ Righteousness shall go before Him and shall set her steps in the way. A prayer of David

¹¹ “Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together to appoint themselves one head. And they shall come up out of the land. For great is the day of Jezreel.”

2 “Say to your brethren, ‘Ammi,’ and to your sisters, ‘Ruhamah!’

² “Plead with your mother. Plead! For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband. But let her take away her fornications out of her sight, 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 make her as a wilderness and leave her like a dry land and kill her for thirst.

⁴ “And I will have no pity upon her children. For they are the children of fornication.

⁵ “For their mother has played the harlot. She who conceived them has done shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after your lovers who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

⁶ “Therefore, behold. I will hedge your way with thorns, so that she shall not find her paths.

⁷ “Though she follows after her lovers, she shall not overtake them. Though she seeks them, she shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband. for I was better off at that time than now.’

⁸ “Now, she did not know that I gave her grain, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they bestowed upon Baal.

⁹ “Therefore, I will return and take away My grain in its time, and My wine in its season, and will recover My wool and My flax, to cover her shame.

¹⁰ “And now I will discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers. And no man shall deliver her out of My Hand.

¹¹ “I will also cause all her joy to cease, her Feast days, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn Feasts.

¹² “And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, ‘These are my rewards that my lovers have given me.’ And I will make them as a forest. And the wild beasts shall eat them.

¹³ “And I will visit the days of Baal upon her, during which she burnt incense to them. And she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels. And she followed her lovers, and forgot Me,” says the LORD.

¹⁴ “Therefore behold, I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak friendly to her.

¹⁵ “And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Achor for a door of hope. And she shall sing there as in the days of her youth, and as on the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

²² And it happened that on a certain day, He went into a 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 as they sailed, He fell asleep. And a storm of wind came down on the lake. And they were filling with water and were in danger.

²⁴ Then they went to Him, and awoke Him, saying, “Master! Master! We are going to die!” And He arose and rebuked the wind and the waves. And they ceased. And it was calm.

²⁵ Then He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they feared, and wondered among themselves, saying, “Who is this Who commands both the winds and water? And they obey Him!”