Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

60 Unto the end, in hymns, for David.

² Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive to my prayer,

³ To thee have I cried from the ends of the earth: when my heart was in anguish, thou hast exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me;

⁴ For thou hast been my hope; a tower of strength against the face of the enemy.

⁵ In thy tabernacle I shall dwell for ever: I shall be protected under the covert of thy wings.

⁶ For thou, my God, hast heard my prayer: thou hast given an inheritance to them that fear thy name.

⁷ Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years even to generation and generation.

⁸ He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who shall search?

⁹ So will I sing a psalm to thy name for ever and ever: that I may pay my vows from day to day.

14 Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.

² Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

³ Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.

⁴ Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods, for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

⁵ I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

⁶ I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.

⁷ His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.

⁸ They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.

⁹ Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is thy fruit found.

¹⁰ Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

²² And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat; nor for your body, what you shall put on.

²³ The life is more than the meat, and the body is more than the raiment.

²⁴ Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they?

²⁵ And which of you, by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit?

²⁶ If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?

²⁷ Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these.

²⁸ Now if God clothe in this manner the grass that is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more you, O ye of little faith?

²⁹ And seek not you what you shall eat, or what you shall drink: and be not lifted up on high.

³⁰ For all these things do the nations of the world seek. But your Father knoweth that you have need of these things.

³¹ But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.