Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Psalm 6

To the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, set [possibly] an octave below. A Psalm of David.

¹ O Lord, rebuke me not in Your anger nor discipline and chasten me in Your hot displeasure.

² Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am weak (faint and withered away); O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

³ My [inner] self [as well as my body] is also exceedingly disturbed and troubled. But You, O Lord, how long [until You return and speak peace to me]?

⁴ Return [to my relief], O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of Your steadfast love and mercy.

⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of You; in Sheol (the place of the dead) who will give You thanks?

⁶ I am weary with my groaning; all night I soak my pillow with tears, I drench my couch with my weeping.

⁷ My eye grows dim because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.

⁸ Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.^(A)

⁹ The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord receives my prayer.

¹⁰ Let all my enemies be ashamed and sorely troubled; let them turn back and be put to shame suddenly.

6 The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Look now, the place where we live before you is too small for us.

² Let us go to the Jordan, and each man get there a [house] beam; and let us make us a place there where we may dwell. And he answered, Go.

³ One said, Be pleased to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.

⁴ So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

⁵ But as one was felling his beam, the axhead fell into the water; and he cried, Alas, my master, for it was borrowed!

⁶ The man of God said, Where did it fall? When shown the place, Elisha cut off a stick and threw it in there, and the iron floated.

⁷ He said, Pick it up. And he put out his hand and took it.

¹³ Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty miracles performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁴ However, it shall be more tolerable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

¹⁵ And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted unto heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades (the regions of the dead).

¹⁶ He who hears and heeds you [disciples] hears and heeds Me; and he who slights and rejects you slights and rejects Me; and he who slights and rejects Me slights and rejects Him who sent Me.