Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁸ My refreshing for me [is] sorrow, For me my heart [is] sick.

¹⁹ Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?

²⁰ Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we -- we have not been saved.

²¹ For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me.

²² Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? For wherefore hath not the health of the daughter of my people gone up?

9 Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.

79 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,

² They gave the dead bodies of Thy servants Food for the fowls of the heavens, The flesh of Thy saints For the wild beast of the earth.

³ They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

⁴ We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

⁵ Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.

⁶ Pour Thy fury on the nations who have not known Thee, And on kingdoms that have not called in Thy name.

⁷ For [one] hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.

⁸ Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.

⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation, Because of the honour of Thy name, And deliver us, and cover over our sins, For Thy name's sake.

2 I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:

² for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

³ for this [is] right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

⁴ who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

⁵ for one [is] God, one also [is] mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

⁶ who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --

⁷ in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.

16 And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods;

² and having called him, he said to him, What [is] this I hear about thee? render the account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest not any longer be steward.

³ `And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed: --

⁴ I have known what I shall do, that, when I may be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me to their houses.

⁵ `And having called near each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much dost thou owe to my lord?

⁶ and he said, A hundred baths of oil; and he said to him, Take thy bill, and having sat down write fifty.

⁷ `Afterward to another he said, And thou, how much dost thou owe? and he said, A hundred cors of wheat; and he saith to him, Take thy bill, and write eighty.

⁸ `And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.

⁹ and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.

¹⁰ `He who is faithful in the least, [is] also faithful in much; and he who in the least [is] unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;

¹¹ if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful -- the true who will entrust to you?

¹² and if in the other's ye became not faithful -- your own, who shall give to you?

¹³ `No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'