Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Prayer of David.

¹ ¶ Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me, for I am poor and needy.

² Preserve my soul; for I am merciful, O thou my God, save thy slave that trusts in thee.

³ Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for I cry unto thee daily.

⁴ Rejoice the soul of thy slave, for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

⁵ For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all those that call upon thee.

⁶ Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer and attend to the voice of my supplications.

⁷ In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me.

⁸ ¶ Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord, neither is there any other who does thy works.

⁹ All the Gentiles whom thou hast made shall come and humble themselves before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

¹⁰ For thou art great and doest wondrous things; thou alone art God.

³ Speak and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.

⁴ But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall come out stuck onto thy scales.

⁵ And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers; thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered; I have given thee for food to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

⁶ And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

⁷ When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst brake and make all their loins to come to nothing.

⁵³ And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently and to provoke him to speak of many things,

⁵⁴ laying wait for him and seeking to catch something out of his mouth that they might accuse him.

12 ¶ In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

² For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, neither hid that shall not be known.

³ Therefore whatever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light, and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.