Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁸ My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.

¹⁹ Behold the voice of the daughter my people from a far country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they provoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities?

²⁰ The harvest is passed, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

²¹ For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.

²² Is there no balm in Galaad? or is no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?

9 Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

79 Unto the end, for them that shall he changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.

² Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth

³ Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

⁴ Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.

⁵ O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

⁶ How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

⁷ Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.

⁸ O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

⁹ Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast cut the Gentiles and planted it.

2 I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men:

² For kings, and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

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

⁴ Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:

⁶ Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.

⁷ Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle, (I say the truth, I lie not,) a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

16 And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods.

² And he called him, and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.

³ And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.

⁴ I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

⁵ Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?

⁶ But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

⁷ Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and write eighty.

⁸ And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.

⁹ And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.

¹⁰ He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little, is unjust also in that which is greater.

¹¹ If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon; who will trust you with that which is the true?

¹² And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's; who will give you that which is your own?

¹³ No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.