Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

60 O God, You have cast us out. You have scattered us. You have been angry. Turn again to us.

² You have made the land tremble and have made it gape. Heal the breaches thereof, for it is shaken.

³ You have shown Your people heavy things. You have made us drink the wine of giddiness.

⁴ You have given a banner to those who fear You, so that it may be displayed, because of Your truth. Selah.

⁵ So that Your beloved may be delivered, help with Your right hand and hear me.

⁶ God has spoken in His holiness, “I will rejoice. I shall divide Shechem and measure the valley of Succoth.

⁷ “Gilead shall be Mine, and Manasseh shall be Mine. Ephraim also shall be the strength of My head. Judah is My lawgiver.

⁸ “Moab shall be My washpot. I will cast out My shoe over Edom. Philistia show yourself joyful for Me.”

⁹ Who will lead me into the strong city? Who will bring me to Edom?

¹⁰ Will not you, O God, Who has cast us off; Who did not go forth, O God, with our armies?

¹¹ Give us help against trouble. For vain is the help of man.

¹² Through God we shall do valiantly; for He shall tread down our enemies. To him who excels on Neginoth: A Psalm of David

14 Samaria shall be desolate. For she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword. Their infants shall be dashed in pieces. And their women with child shall be ripped open.

² O Israel, return to the LORD your God! For you have fallen by your iniquity!

³ Take words with you and turn to the LORD, and say to Him, “Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously. So will we render the calves of our lips.

⁴ “Assyria shall not save us. Nor will we ride upon horses. Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’ For in You the fatherless finds mercy.”

⁵ “I will heal their rebellion. I will love them freely. For My anger has turned away from him.

⁶ “I will be as the dew to Israel. He shall grow as the lily and fasten his roots as the trees of Lebanon.

⁷ “His branches shall spread. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree and his smell as Lebanon.

⁸ “Those who dwell under his shadow shall return. They shall revive as grain and flourish as the vine. Their scent shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

⁹ “Ephraim shall say, ‘What have I to do anymore with idols?’ I shall hear him and look upon him. I am like a green fir tree. Upon Me your fruit is found.

¹⁰ “Who is wise and shall understand these things, prudent and shall know them? For the ways of the LORD are righteous and the just shall walk in them. But the wicked shall fall therein.”

²² And He spoke to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you take no thought for your life (what you shall eat) or for your body (what you shall wear).

²³ “Life is more than food, and the body than the clothing.

²⁴ “Consider the ravens. For they neither sow nor reap. Nor do they have storehouse or barn. And yet God feeds them. How much better are you than birds?

²⁵ “And who of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

²⁶ “If you then are not able to do the least thing, why do you worry about the rest?

²⁷ “Consider how the lilies grow. They neither labor nor spin. Yet I say to you that Solomon himself, in all his royalty, was not clothed like one of these.

²⁸ “If then God so clothes the grass (which is in the field today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven) how much more will he clothe you? O you of little faith!

²⁹ “Therefore, do not ask what you shall eat or what you shall drink, or have an anxious mind.

³⁰ “For the people of the world all seek for such things. And your Father knows that you need these things.

³¹ “But rather, seek the Kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you.