Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴ Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families of the house of Israel.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

⁶ And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?

⁷ And I brought you into the land of Carmel, to eat the fruit thereof, and the best things thereof: and when ye entered in, you defiled my land, and made my inheritance an abomination.

⁸ The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and they that held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.

⁹ Therefore will I yet contend in judgement with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your children.

¹⁰ Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar, and consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like this.

¹¹ If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.

¹² Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.

¹³ For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

81 A psalm for Asaph. God hath stood in the congregation of gods: and being in the midst of them he judgeth gods.

13 Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.

² And hospitality do not forget; for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

³ Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them; and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.

⁴ Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

⁵ Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have; for he hath said: I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.

⁶ So that we may confidently say: The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man shall do to me.

⁷ Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to you; whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation,

⁸ Jesus Christ, yesterday, and to day; and the same for ever.

¹⁵ By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.

¹⁶ And do not forget to do good, and to impart; for by such sacrifices God's favour is obtained.

14 And it came to pass, when Jesus went into the house of one of the chief of the Pharisees, on the sabbath day, to eat bread, that they watched him.

⁷ And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:

⁸ When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him:

⁹ And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee, Give this man place: and then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place.

¹⁰ But when thou art invited, go, sit down in the lowest place; that when he who invited thee, cometh, he may say to thee: Friend, go up higher. Then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at table with thee.

¹¹ Because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

¹² And he said to him also that had invited him: When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor thy neighbours who are rich; lest perhaps they also invite thee again, and a recompense be made to thee.

¹³ But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind;

¹⁴ And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.