Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

55 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy, and eat: yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price!

² Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.

⁴ Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the peoples, a prince and commander to the peoples.

⁵ Behold, thou shalt call a nation thou knowest not, and a nation [that] knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of Jehovah thy God, and the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.

⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.

⁹ For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

63 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:

² To see thy power and thy glory, as I have beheld thee in the sanctuary;

³ For thy loving-kindness is better than life: my lips shall praise thee.

⁴ So will I bless thee while I live; I will lift up my hands in thy name.

⁵ My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips.

⁶ When I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches:

⁷ For thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings will I sing for joy.

⁸ My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

10 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

² and all were baptised unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

³ and all ate the same spiritual food,

⁴ and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed [them]: (now the rock was the Christ;)

⁵ yet God was not pleased with the most of them, for they were strewed in the desert.

⁶ But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

⁷ Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

⁸ Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

⁹ Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents.

¹⁰ Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

¹¹ Now all these things happened to them [as] types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

¹² So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

¹³ No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able [to bear], but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that [ye] should be able to bear [it].

13 Now at the same time there were present some who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with [that of] their sacrifices.

² And he answering said to them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans because they suffered such things?

³ No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in the same manner.

⁴ Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, think ye that *they* were debtors beyond all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

⁵ No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in like manner.

⁶ And he spoke this parable: A certain [man] had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit upon it and did not find [any].

⁷ And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, [these] three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none: cut it down; why does it also render the ground useless?

⁸ But he answering says to him, Sir, let it alone for this year also, until I shall dig about it and put dung,

⁹ and if it shall bear fruit—but if not, after that thou shalt cut it down.