Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. On Shushan. Testimony. Michtam of David; to teach: when he strove with the Syrians of Mesopotamia, and the Syrians of Zobah, and Joab returned, and smote the Edomites in the valley of salt, twelve thousand.

60 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased: restore us again.

² Thou hast made the earth to tremble, thou hast rent it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

³ Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us to drink the wine of bewilderment.

⁴ Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth, (Selah,)

⁵ That thy beloved ones may be delivered. Save with thy right hand, and answer me.

⁶ God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

⁷ Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

⁸ Moab is my wash-pot; upon Edom will I cast my sandal; Philistia, shout aloud because of me.

⁹ Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me unto Edom?

¹⁰ [Wilt] not thou, O God, who didst cast us off? and didst not go forth, O God, with our armies?

¹¹ Give us help from trouble; for vain is man's deliverance.

¹² Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will tread down our adversaries.

14 O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

² Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah; say unto him, Forgive all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips.

³ Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Thou art] our God; because in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

⁴ I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.

⁵ I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

⁶ His shoots shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

⁷ They shall return and sit under his shadow; they shall revive [as] corn, and blossom as the vine: the renown thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

⁸ Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? (I answer [him], and I will observe him.) I am like a green fir-tree.—From me is thy fruit found.

⁹ Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? intelligent, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the transgressors shall fall therein.

²² And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on.

²³ The life is more than food, and the body than raiment.

²⁴ Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How much better are *ye* than the birds?

²⁵ But which of you by being careful can add to his stature one cubit?

²⁶ If therefore ye cannot [do] even what is least, why are ye careful about the rest?

²⁷ Consider the lilies how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I say unto you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these.

²⁸ But if God thus clothe the grass, which to-day is in the field and to-morrow is cast into [the] oven, how much rather you, O ye of little faith?

²⁹ And *ye*, seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, and be not in anxiety;

³⁰ for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;

³¹ but seek his kingdom, and [all] these things shall be added to you.