Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁸ I would have comforted myself against sorrow, but my heart is heavy in me.

¹⁹ Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a far country, “Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, and with strange vanities?”

²⁰ “The harvest is past! The summer has ended! And we are not saved!”

²¹ Because of the brokenness of the daughter of my people, I am broken. I mourn. Astonishment has taken me.

²² Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no Physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

9 Oh, that my head were full of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

79 O God, the heathen have come into Your inheritance. They have defiled Your Holy Temple and made Jerusalem heaps of stones.

² The dead bodies of Your servants they have given to be food to birds of the heaven, and the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the Earth.

³ They have shed their blood like waters, all around Jerusalem; and there was no one to bury them.

⁴ We are a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

⁵ LORD, how long will You be angry? Forever? Shall Your jealousy burn like fire?

⁶ Pour out Your wrath upon the heathen who have not known You, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon Your Name.

⁷ For they have devoured Jacob and made His dwelling place desolate.

⁸ Do not remember our former iniquities against us, but let Your tender mercies come quickly to meet us; for we are in great misery.

⁹ Help us, O God of Our Salvation, for the Glory of Your Name; and deliver us and be merciful to our sins for Your Name’s sake.

2 Therefore, I encourage most of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all mankind;

² for kings, and for all who are in authority. So that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty.

³ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

⁴ Who desires that all mankind should be saved and come to the acknowledgment of the Truth.

⁵ For there is one God - and one Mediator between God and man - Who is the man, Christ Jesus.

⁶ He gave Himself - a ransom for all - to be that testimony in due time.

⁷ To this I am ordained a preacher and an Apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, and do not lie), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

16 And He also said to His disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a steward. And he was accused to him of wasting his goods.

² “And he called him and said to him, ‘How is it that I hear this of you? Give an account of your stewardship. For you may no longer be steward.’

³ “Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking away the stewardship from me. I cannot dig. And I am ashamed to beg.

⁴ ‘I know what I will do, so that when I am put out of the stewardship they may receive me into their houses.’

⁵ “Then he called every one of his master’s debtors to him, and said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my master?’

⁶ “And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill. And sit down quickly. And write fifty.’

⁷ “Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ Then he said to him, ‘Take your bill and write eighty.’

⁸ “And the master commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely. For among their own kind, the children of this world are wiser than the children of light.

⁹ “And I say to you, make friends with the riches of iniquity, so that when you fail, they may receive you into eternal dwellings.

¹⁰ “The one who is faithful in the least, is also faithful in much. And the one who is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much.

¹¹ “If, then, you have not been faithful in the riches of iniquity, who will trust you in the true treasure?

¹² “And if you have not been faithful in another man’s goods, who shall give you that which is yours?

¹³ “No servant can serve two masters. For either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall lean to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.”