Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
102 O LORD, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to You.
2 Do not hide Your face from me in the time of my trouble. Incline Your ears to me when I call. Hurry to hear me.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke; and my bones are burnt like a hearth.
4 My heart is stricken and withered, like grass, because I forgot to eat my bread.
5 Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I am like an owl of the deserts.
7 I watch and am as a sparrow, alone upon the house top.
8 My enemies revile me daily. Those who rage against me have sworn against me.
9 Surely, I have eaten ashes as bread and mingled my drink with weeping
10 because of Your indignation and Your wrath. For You have heaved me up and cast me down.
11 My days are like a shadow that fades; and I am withered like grass.
12 But You, O LORD, remain forever, and Your remembrance from generation to generation.
13 You will arise and have mercy upon Zion. For the time to have mercy thereon, for the appointed time, has come.
14 For Your servants, delight in the stones thereof and have pity on the dust thereof.
15 Then the heathen shall fear the Name of the LORD, and all the kings of the Earth Your Glory,
16 when the LORD shall build up Zion and shall appear in His Glory
17 and shall turn to the prayer of the desolate and not despise their prayer.
13 Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding.
14 For the merchandise thereof is better than the merchandise of silver. And the gain thereof is better than gold.
15 It is more precious than pearls. And all things that you can desire are not to be compared to her.
16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her right hand, riches and glory.
17 Her ways are ways of pleasure; and all her paths, peace.
18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. And blessed is he who retains her.
31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
32 “And you shall know the truth. And the truth shall make you free.”
33 They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s seed, and were never slave to anyone. Why then do You say, ‘You shall be made free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly I say to you that whoever commits sin is the servant of sin.
35 “And the servant does not abide in the house forever. But the Son abides forever.
36 “If, therefore, the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
37 “I know that you are Abraham’s seed. But you seek to kill Me because My Word has no place in you.
38 “I speak that which I have seen with My Father. And you do that which you have seen with your father.”
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