Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

53 Unto the end, In verses, understanding for David.

² When the men of Ziph had come and said to Saul: Is not David hidden with us?

³ Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength.

⁴ O God, hear my prayer: give ear to the words of my mouth.

⁵ For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.

⁶ For behold God is my helper: and the Lord is the protector of my soul.

⁷ Turn back the evils upon my enemies; and cut them off in thy truth.

⁸ I will freely sacrifice to thee, and will give praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good:

⁹ For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye hath looked down upon my enemies.

4 Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.

² And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me to do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I thy handmaid have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me.

³ And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels not a few.

⁴ And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full take them away.

⁵ So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons: they brought her the vessels, and she poured in.

⁶ And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood.

⁷ And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.

¹⁰ And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all they had done. And taking them, he went aside into a desert place, apart, which belongeth to Bethsaida.

¹¹ Which when the people knew, they followed him; and he received them, and spoke to them of the kingdom of God, and healed them who had need of healing.

¹² Now the day began to decline. And the twelve came and said to him: Send away the multitude, that going into the towns and villages round about, they may lodge and get victuals; for we are here in a desert place.

¹³ But he said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said: We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; unless perhaps we should go and buy food for all this multitude.

¹⁴ Now there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples: Make them sit down by fifties in a company.

¹⁵ And they did so; and made them all sit down.

¹⁶ And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed them; and he broke, and distributed to his disciples, to set before the multitude.

¹⁷ And they did all eat, and were filled. And there were taken up of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets.