Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

107 A canticle of a psalm for David himself.

² My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and will give praise, with my glory.

³ Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the morning early.

⁴ I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing unto thee among the populations.

⁵ For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto the clouds.

⁶ Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory over all the earth:

⁷ That thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand and hear me.

⁸ God hath spoken in his holiness. I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem and I will mete out the vale of tabernacles.

⁹ Galaad is mine, and Manasses is mine and Ephraim the protection of my head. Juda is my king:

10 Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath multiplied altars, according to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with idols.

² Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars.

³ For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us?

⁴ You speak words of an unprofitable vision, and you shall make a covenant: and judgment shall spring up as bitterness in the furrows of the field.

⁵ The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the kine of Bethaven: for the people thereof have mourned over it, and the wardens of its temple that rejoiced over it in its glory because it is departed from it.

⁶ For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the avenging king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be confounded in his own will.

⁷ Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the water.

⁸ And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and they shall say to the mountains: Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon us.

⁹ From the days of Gabaa, Israel hath sinned, there they stood: the battle in Gabaa against the children of iniquity shall not overtake them.

¹⁰ According to my desire I will chastise them: and the nations shall be gathered together against them, when they shall be chastised for their two iniquities.

¹¹ Ephraim is a heifer taught to love to tread out corn, but I passed over upon the beauty of her neck: I will ride upon Ephraim, Juda shall plough, Jacob shall break the furrows for himself.

¹² Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when he shall come that shall teach you justice.

¹³ You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, you have eaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy ways, in the multitude of thy strong ones.

¹⁴ A tumult shall arise among thy people: and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed as Salmana was destroyed, by the house of him that judged Baal in the day of battle, the mother being dashed in pieces upon her children.

¹⁵ So hath Bethel done to you, because of the evil of your iniquities.

¹⁷ And when he was gone forth into the way, a certain man running up and kneeling before him, asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting?

¹⁸ And Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? None is good but one, that is God.

¹⁹ Thou knowest the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, bear not false witness, do no fraud, honour thy father and mother.

²⁰ But he answering, said to him: Master, all these things I have observed from my youth.

²¹ And Jesus looking on him, loved him, and said to him: One thing is wanting unto thee: go, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.

²² Who being struck sad at that saying, went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.