Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
MEM
97 Oh how love I Your Law! It is my meditation continually.
98 By Your Commandments You have made me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.
99 I have had more understanding than all my teachers, for Your Testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understood more than the aged, because I kept Your Precepts.
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep Your Word.
102 I have not turned away from Your Judgments, for You have taught me.
103 How sweet are Your promises to my mouth; yea, more than honey to my mouth!
104 By Your Precepts I have gotten understanding. Therefore, I hate all the ways of falsehood.
15 Thus says the LORD: “A voice was heard on high — a mourning and bitter weeping. Rachel, weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”
16 Thus says the LORD: “Restrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for your work shall be rewarded,” says the LORD, “and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
17 “And there is hope in your future,” says the LORD, “that your children shall come back to their own borders.
18 “I have heard Ephraim lamenting, ‘You have corrected me,’ and ‘I was chastised as an untamed calf. Convert me, and I shall be converted. For You are the LORD my God.
19 ‘Surely, after I was converted, I repented. And after I was instructed, I struck my thigh. I was ashamed — yea, even humiliated — because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
20 “Is Ephraim My dear son or pleasant child? Yet, though I spoke against him, I still remembered him. Therefore, My Core is troubled for him. I will surely have compassion upon him,” says the LORD.
21 “Set up signs for yourselves. Make yourselves heaps. Set your heart toward the path and way that you have walked. Turn back, O virgin of Israel! Turn back to these, your cities!
22 “How long will you go astray, O you rebellious daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the Earth: A woman shall turn around a man.”
23 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “They shall still say this thing in the land of Judah, and in its cities, when I shall bring back their captivity, ‘The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, Holy Mountain.’
24 “And Judah shall dwell in it, and all its cities, together, the farmers and those who go forth with the flock.
25 “For I have satiated the weary soul. And I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
26 Therefore, I awoke and beheld. And my sleep was sweet to me.
46 Then they came to Jericho. And as He went out of Jericho with His disciples (and a great multitude), Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind man, sat by the wayside, begging.
47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry and say, “Jesus! The Son of David! Have mercy on me!”
48 And many rebuked him and told him to be quiet. But he cried much more, “O, Son of David! Have mercy on me!”
49 Then Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called. And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Be of good cheer! Arise, He calls you.”
50 So he threw off his cloak and rose and came to Jesus.
51 And Jesus answered, and said to him, “What would you have Me do for you?” And the blind said to Him, “Lord, that I may receive sight.”
52 Then Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has saved you.” And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the way.
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