Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

10 Unto the end. A psalm for David.

² In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain like a sparrow?

³ For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow; they have prepared their arrows in the quiver; to shoot in the dark the upright of heart.

⁴ For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

⁵ The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven. His eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men.

⁶ The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity hateth his own soul.

⁷ He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone and storms of winds shall be the portion of their cup.

⁸ For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: his countenance hath beheld righteousness.

²⁷ And thou shalt speak to them all these words, but they will not hearken to thee: and thou shalt call them, but they will not answer thee.

²⁸ And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor received instruction: Faith is lost, and is carried away out of their mouth.

²⁹ Cut off thy hair, and cast it away: and take up a lamentation on high: for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath,

³⁰ Because the children of Juda have done evil in my eyes, saith the Lord. They have set their abominations in the house in which my name is called upon, to pollute it;

³¹ And they have built the high places of Topeth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons, and their daughters in the fire: which I commanded not, nor thought on in my heart.

³² Therefore behold the days shall come, saith the Lord, and it shall no more be called Topeth, nor the valley of the son of Ennom: but the valley of slaughter, and they shall bury in Topeth, because there is no place.

³³ And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be non to drive them away.

³⁴ And I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

⁶ And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue, and taught. And there was a man, whose right hand was withered.

⁷ And the scribes and Pharisees watched if he would heal on the sabbath; that they might find an accusation against him.

⁸ But he knew their thoughts; and said to the man who had the withered hand: Arise, and stand forth in the midst. And rising he stood forth.

⁹ Then Jesus said to them: I ask you, if it be lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil; to save life, or to destroy?

¹⁰ And looking round about on them all, he said to the man: Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth: and his hand was restored.

¹¹ And they were filled with madness; and they talked one with another, what they might do to Jesus.