Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

91 Whoever dwells in the secret of the Most High shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

² I will say to the LORD, “O my Hope, and my Fortress! My God!” In Him will I trust.

³ Surely, He will deliver you from the snare of the hunter, from the calamitous pestilence.

⁴ He will cover you under His wings. And you shall be sure under his feathers. His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

⁵ You shall not be afraid of the fear of the night; of the arrow that flies by day;

⁶ of the pestilence that walks in the darkness; of the plague that destroys at noon day.

¹⁴ “Because he has loved Me, therefore will I deliver him. I will exalt him because he has known My Name.

¹⁵ “He shall call upon Me, and I will hear him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and glorify him.

¹⁶ “I will satisfy him with long life and show him my salvation.” A Psalm, or song, for the Sabbath day

24 The LORD showed me. And behold, two baskets of figs were set before the Temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, had carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the workmen, and cunning men of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babel.

² One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first. And the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so evil.

³ Then said the LORD to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs very good and the bad very bad which cannot be eaten, they are so evil.”

⁴ Again, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,

⁵ “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I know those of Judah who are carried away captive to be good, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.

⁶ ‘For I will set My Eyes upon them for good. And I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them and not destroy them. And I will plant them and not root them out.

⁷ ‘And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God. For they shall return to Me with their whole heart.

⁸ ‘And as the bad figs which cannot be eaten, they are so evil — surely thus says the LORD — so will I give Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his princes, and the rest of Jerusalem that remains in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

⁹ ‘I will give them as a terrible plague to all the kingdoms of the Earth, for a reproach and for a proverb, for a common talk and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them.

¹⁰ ‘And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are destroyed in the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”

⁴³ And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. And while they all wondered at all the things which Jesus did, He said to His disciples,

⁴⁴ “Let these words sink down into your ears. For the time will come when the Son of Man shall be delivered into the hands of man.”

⁴⁵ But they did not understand that word, for it was hidden from them. So, they could not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask Him about that word.

⁴⁶ Then a dispute arose among them: which one of them should be the greatest.

⁴⁷ When Jesus saw the thoughts of their hearts, He took a little child and set him by Him.

⁴⁸ And He said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in My Name, receives Me. And whoever shall receive Me, receives Him Who sent Me. For the one who is least among you all shall be great.”