Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
48 Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the City of our God, upon His Holy Mountain.
2 Mount Zion (lying northward) is beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole Earth, the City of the Great King.
3 In the palaces thereof, God is known for a refuge.
4 For lo, the kings were gathered and went together.
5 When they saw it, they marveled. They were astonished and suddenly driven back.
6 Fear came upon them there, and sorrow, as upon a woman in childbirth,
7 as when You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the City of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.
9 In the midst of Your Temple we wait for Your lovingkindness, O God.
10 O God, according to Your Name, so is Your praise to the world’s end. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
11 Let Mount Zion rejoice, and the daughters of Judah be glad, because of Your judgments!
12 March around Zion and encircle it. Count the towers thereof.
13 Mark well the wall thereof. Behold her towers, so that you may tell your posterity.
14 For this God is our God, forever and ever. He shall be our guide to the death. To him who excels: A Psalm committed to the sons of Korah.
31 And David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner!” And King David himself followed the bier.
32 And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, the king lifted up his voice and wept beside the sepulcher of Abner. And all the people wept.
33 And the king lamented over Abner, and said, “Did Abner die as a fool dies?
34 “Your hands were not bound, nor your feet tied in fetters of bronze. Yet, as a man falls before wicked men did you fall.” And all the people wept again for him.
35 Afterward, all the people came to urge David to eat food while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, “So do God to me and more also if I taste bread or anything else until the Sun is down.”
36 And all the people noted it, and it pleased them, since whatever the king did pleased all the people.
37 For all the people and all Israel understood on that day how that it was not the king’s doing that Abner, the son of Ner, had been killed.
38 And the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that there is a prince and a great man who has fallen this day in Israel?
18 And when Jesus saw great multitudes of people around Him, He commanded them to go over the water.
19 Then, a certain scribe came and said to Him, “Master, I will follow You wherever You go.”
20 But Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest His head.”
21 And another of His disciples said to Him, “Master, let me first go and bury my father.”
22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me. And let the dead bury the dead.”
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