Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

55 Ho, every thirsty one, come ye to the waters, And he who hath no money, Come ye, buy and eat, yea, come, buy Without money and without price, wine and milk.

² Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.

⁴ Lo, a witness to peoples I have given him, A leader and commander to peoples.

⁵ Lo, a nation thou knowest not, thou callest, And a nation who know thee not unto thee do run, For the sake of Jehovah thy God, And for the Holy One of Israel, Because He hath beautified thee.

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,

⁷ Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.

⁸ For not My thoughts [are] your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, -- an affirmation of Jehovah,

⁹ For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.

63 A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou [art] my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.

² So in the sanctuary I have seen Thee, To behold Thy strength and Thine honour.

³ Because better [is] Thy kindness than life, My lips do praise Thee.

⁴ So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands.

⁵ As [with] milk and fatness is my soul satisfied, And [with] singing lips doth my mouth praise.

⁶ If I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches -- I meditate on Thee.

⁷ For Thou hast been a help to me, And in the shadow of Thy wings I sing.

⁸ Cleaved hath my soul after Thee, On me hath Thy right hand taken hold.

10 And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,

² and all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea;

³ and all the same spiritual food did eat,

⁴ and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ;

⁵ but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,

⁶ and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

⁷ Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

⁸ neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

⁹ neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

¹⁰ neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.

¹¹ And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,

¹² so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.

¹³ No temptation hath taken you -- except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear [it].

13 And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;

² and Jesus answering said to them, `Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?

³ No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

⁴ `Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem?

⁵ No -- I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye in like manner shall perish.'

⁶ And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;

⁷ and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?

⁸ `And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;

⁹ and if indeed it may bear fruit --; and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'