Psalm 102

[1] Hear my prayer, O LORD;   

         let my cry come to you.   

[2] Do not hide your face from me   

         in the day of my distress.   

    Incline your ear to me;   

         answer me speedily in the day when I call.

[3] For my days pass away like smoke,   

         and my bones burn like a furnace.   

[4] My heart is stricken and withered like grass;   

         I am too wasted to eat my bread.   

[5] Because of my loud groaning   

         my bones cling to my skin.   

[6] I am like an owl of the wilderness,   

         like a little owl of the waste places.   

[7] I lie awake;   

         I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.   

[8] All day long my enemies taunt me;   

         those who deride me use my name for a curse.   

[9] For I eat ashes like bread,   

         and mingle tears with my drink,   

[10] because of your indignation and anger;   

         for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.   

[11] My days are like an evening shadow;   

         I wither away like grass.

[12] But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever;   

         your name endures to all generations.   

[13] You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,   

         for it is time to favor it;   

         the appointed time has come.   

[14] For your servants hold its stones dear,   

         and have pity on its dust.   

[15] The nations will fear the name of the LORD,   

         and all the kings of the earth your glory.   

[16] For the LORD will build up Zion;   

         he will appear in his glory.   

[17] He will regard the prayer of the destitute,   

         and will not despise their prayer.   

[18] Let this be recorded for a generation to come,   

         so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD:   

[19] that he looked down from his holy height,   

         from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,   

[20] to hear the groans of the prisoners,   

         to set free those who were doomed to die;   

[21] so that the name of the LORD may be declared in Zion,   

         and his praise in Jerusalem,   

[22] when peoples gather together,   

         and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.

[23] He has broken my strength in midcourse;   

         he has shortened my days.   

[24] "O my God," I say, "do not take me away   

         at the mid-point of my life,   

    you whose years endure   

         throughout all generations."

[25] Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,   

         and the heavens are the work of your hands.   

[26] They will perish, but you endure;   

         they will all wear out like a garment.   

    You change them like clothing, and they pass away;   

[27] but you are the same, and your years have no end.   

[28] The children of your servants shall live secure;   

         their offspring shall be established in your presence.

Psalm 27

[1]   The LORD is my light and my salvation;  
          whom shall I fear?  
     The LORD is the stronghold of my life;  
          of whom shall I be afraid?

[2]   When evildoers assail me  
          to devour my flesh --  
     my adversaries and foes --  
          they shall stumble and fall.

[3]   Though an army encamp against me,  
          my heart shall not fear;  
     though war rise up against me,  
          yet I will be confident.

[4]   One thing I asked of the LORD,  
          that will I seek after:  
     to live in the house of the LORD  
          all the days of my life,  
     to behold the beauty of the LORD,  
          and to inquire in his temple.

[5]   For he will hide me in his shelter  
          in the day of trouble;  
     he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;  
          he will set me high on a rock.

[6]   Now my head is lifted up  
          above my enemies all around me,  
     and I will offer in his tent  
          sacrifices with shouts of joy;  
     I will sing and make melody to the LORD.

[7]   Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud,  
          be gracious to me and answer me!  
[8]   "Come," my heart says, "seek his face!"  
          Your face, LORD, do I seek.  
[9]        Do not hide your face from me.

     Do not turn your servant away in anger,  
          you who have been my help.  
     Do not cast me off, do not forsake me,  
          O God of my salvation!  
[10]   If my father and mother forsake me,  
          the LORD will take me up.

[11]  Teach me your way, O LORD,  
          and lead me on a level path  
          because of my enemies.  
[12]  Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries,  
          for false witnesses have risen against me,  
          and they are breathing out violence.

[13]  I believe that I shall see the goodness of the LORD  
          in the land of the living.  
[14]   Wait for the LORD;  
          be strong, and let your heart take courage;  
          wait for the LORD!

John 4:43-54

[43]When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee [44](for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet's own country). [45]When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival; for they too had gone to the festival.

[46]Then he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum. [47]When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. [48]Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe." [49]The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my little boy dies." [50]Jesus said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. [51]As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child was alive. [52]So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him." [53]The father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole household. [54]Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.

Psalm 121

[1]  I lift up my eyes to the hills --  
          from where will my help come?  
[2]   My help comes from the LORD,  
          who made heaven and earth.

[3]   He will not let your foot be moved;  
          he who keeps you will not slumber.  
[4]   He who keeps Israel  
          will neither slumber nor sleep.

[5]   The LORD is your keeper;  
          the LORD is your shade at your right hand.  
[6]   The sun shall not strike you by day,  
          nor the moon by night.

[7]   The LORD will keep you from all evil;  
          he will keep your life.  
[8]   The LORD will keep  
          your going out and your coming in  
          from this time on and for evermore.

John 4:1-26

[1]Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John" -- [2]although it was not Jesus himself

but his disciples who baptized -- [3]he left Judea and started back to Galilee. [4]But he had to go through Samaria. [5]So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. [6]Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

[7]A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." [8](His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) [9]The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) [10]Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." [11]The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? [12]Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?" [13]Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, [14]but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life." [15]The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

[16]Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back." [17]The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; [18]for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!" [19]The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet. [20]Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem." [21]Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. [22]You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. [23]But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. [24]God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." [25]The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us." [26]Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who is speaking to you."

 

Deuteronomy 10:12-22

[12]So now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you? Only to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, [13]and to keep the commandments of the LORD your God and his decrees that I am commanding you today, for your own well-being. [14]Although heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the LORD your God, the earth with all that is in it, [15]yet the LORD set his heart in love on your ancestors alone and chose you, their descendants after them, out of all the peoples, as it is today. [16]Circumcise, then, the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer. [17]For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, [18]who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them with food and clothing. [19]You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. [20]You shall fear the LORD your God; him alone you shall worship; to him you shall hold fast, and by his name you shall swear. [21]He is your praise; he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things that your own eyes have seen. [22]Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in heaven.

  

Psalm 126

[1]   When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion,  

          we were like those who dream.  

[2]   Then our mouth was filled with laughter,  

          and our tongue with shouts of joy;  

     then it was said among the nations,  

          "The LORD has done great things for them."   

[3]   The LORD has done great things for us,  

          and we rejoiced.

[4]   Restore our fortunes, O LORD,  

          like the watercourses in the Negeb.  

[5]   May those who sow in tears  

          reap with shouts of joy.  

[6]   Those who go out weeping,  

          bearing the seed for sowing,  

     shall come home with shouts of joy,  

          carrying their sheaves.

John 2:23-3:15

[2:23]When he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival, many believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing. [24]But Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people [25]and needed no one to testify about anyone; for he himself knew what was in everyone.

[3:1]Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. [2]He came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God." [3]Jesus answered him, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above." [4]Nicodemus said to him, "How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother's womb and be born?" [5]Jesus answered, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. [6]What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. [7]Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'You must be born from above.' [8]The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." [9]Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?" [10]Jesus answered him, "Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

[11]"Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. [12]If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? [13]No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. [14]And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, [15]that whoever believes in him may have eternal life."

Psalm 34

[1]   I will bless the LORD at all times;   
         his praise shall continually be in my mouth.   
[2]   My soul makes its boast in the LORD;   
         let the humble hear and be glad.   
[3]   O magnify the LORD with me,   
         and let us exalt his name together.   
[4]   I sought the LORD, and he answered me,   
         and delivered me from all my fears.   
[5]   Look to him, and be radiant;   
         so your faces shall never be ashamed.   
[6]   This poor soul cried, and was heard by the LORD,   
         and was saved from every trouble.   
[7]   The angel of the LORD encamps   
         around those who fear him, and delivers them.   
[8]   O taste and see that the LORD is good;   
         happy are those who take refuge in him.   
[9]   O fear the LORD, you his holy ones,   
         for those who fear him have no want.   
[10]  The young lions suffer want and hunger,   
         but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

[11]  Come, O children, listen to me;   
         I will teach you the fear of the LORD.   
[12]  Which of you desires life,   
         and covets many days to enjoy good?   
[13]  Keep your tongue from evil,   
         and your lips from speaking deceit.   
[14]  Depart from evil, and do good;   
         seek peace, and pursue it.

[15]  The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,   
         and his ears are open to their cry.   
[16]  The face of the LORD is against evildoers,   
         to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.   
[17]  When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears,   
         and rescues them from all their troubles.   
[18]  The LORD is near to the brokenhearted,   
         and saves the crushed in spirit.

[19]  Many are the afflictions of the righteous,   
         but the LORD rescues them from them all.   
[20]  He keeps all their bones;   
         not one of them will be broken.   
[21]  Evil brings death to the wicked,   
         and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.   
[22]  The LORD redeems the life of his servants;   
         none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.

Deuteronomy 8:1-18

[1]This entire commandment that I command you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and increase, and go in and occupy the land that the LORD promised on oath to your ancestors. [2]Remember the long way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments. [3]He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. [4]The clothes on your back did not wear out and your feet did not swell these forty years. [5]Know then in your heart that as a parent disciplines a child so the LORD your God disciplines you. [6]Therefore keep the commandments of the LORD your God, by walking in his ways and by fearing him. [7]For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills, [8]a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, [9]a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine copper. [10]You shall eat your fill and bless the LORD your God for the good land that he has given you.

[11]Take care that you do not forget the LORD your God, by failing to keep his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I am commanding you today. [12]When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them, [13]and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, [14]then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, [15]who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland with poisonous snakes and scorpions. He made water flow for you from flint rock, [16]and fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you, and in the end to do you good. [17]Do not say to yourself, "My power and the might of my own hand have gotten me this wealth." [18]But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today.

John 1:43-51

[43]The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." [44]Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. [45]Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth." [46]Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." [47]When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, "Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!" [48]Nathanael asked him, "Where did you get to know me?" Jesus answered, "I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you." [49]Nathanael replied, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" [50]Jesus answered, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these." [51]And he said to him, "Very truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."

Psalm 130

[1]   Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD.   
[2]       Lord, hear my voice!   
    Let your ears be attentive   
         to the voice of my supplications!

[3]   If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,   
         Lord, who could stand?   
[4]   But there is forgiveness with you,   
         so that you may be revered.

[5]   I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,   
         and in his word I hope;   
[6]   my soul waits for the Lord   
         more than those who watch for the morning,   
         more than those who watch for the morning.

[7]   O Israel, hope in the LORD!   
         For with the LORD there is steadfast love,   
         and with him is great power to redeem.   
[8]   It is he who will redeem Israel   
         from all its iniquities.

Deuteronomy 7:6-11

[6]For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

[7]It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you -- for you were the fewest of all peoples. [8]It was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath that he swore to your ancestors, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. [9]Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, [10]and who repays in their own person those who reject him. He does not delay but repays in their own person those who reject him. [11]Therefore, observe diligently the commandment -- the statutes, and the ordinances -- that I am commanding you today.

Luke 18:9-14

[9]He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt: [10]"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. [11]The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, 'God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. [12]I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all my income.' [13]But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' [14]I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other; for all who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted."

Deuteronomy 6:16-25

[16]Do not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. [17]You must diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his decrees, and his statutes that he has commanded you. [18]Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may go well with you, and so that you may go in and occupy the good land that the LORD swore to your ancestors to give you, [19]thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised.

[20]When your children ask you in time to come, "What is the meaning of the decrees and the statutes and the ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?" [21]then you shall say to your children, "We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. [22]The LORD displayed before our eyes great and awesome signs and wonders against Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his household. [23]He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land that he promised on oath to our ancestors. [24]Then the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our lasting good, so as to keep us alive, as is now the case. [25]If we diligently observe this entire commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, we will be in the right."

John 1:1-18

[1]In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2]He was in the beginning with God. [3]All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being [4]in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. [5]The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

[6]There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. [7]He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. [8]He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. [9]The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

[10]He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. [11]He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. [12]But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, [13]who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

[14]And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth. [15](John testified to him and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.'") [16]From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. [17]The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. [18]No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.

Psalm 63

[1]   O God, you are my God, I seek you,   
         my soul thirsts for you;   
    my flesh faints for you,   
         as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.   
[2]   So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,   
         beholding your power and glory.   
[3]   Because your steadfast love is better than life,   
         my lips will praise you.   
[4]   So I will bless you as long as I live;   
         I will lift up my hands and call on your name.

[5]   My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast,   
         and my mouth praises you with joyful lips   
[6]   when I think of you on my bed,   
         and meditate on you in the watches of the night;   
[7]   for you have been my help,   
         and in the shadow of your wings I sing for joy.   
[8]   My soul clings to you;   
         your right hand upholds me.

[9]   But those who seek to destroy my life   
         shall go down into the depths of the earth;   
[10]  they shall be given over to the power of the sword,   
         they shall be prey for jackals.   
[11]  But the king shall rejoice in God;   
         all who swear by him shall exult,   
         for the mouths of liars will be stopped.

Psalm 84

[1]   How lovely is your dwelling place,   
         O LORD of hosts!   
[2]   My soul longs, indeed it faints   
         for the courts of the LORD;   
    my heart and my flesh sing for joy   
         to the living God.

[3]   Even the sparrow finds a home,   
         and the swallow a nest for herself,   
         where she may lay her young,   
    at your altars, O LORD of hosts,   
         my King and my God.   
[4]   Happy are those who live in your house,   
         ever singing your praise.                        Selah

[5]   Happy are those whose strength is in you,   
         in whose heart are the highways to Zion.   
[6]   As they go through the valley of Baca   
         they make it a place of springs;   
         the early rain also covers it with pools.   
[7]   They go from strength to strength;   
         the God of gods will be seen in Zion.

[8]   O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;   
         give ear, O God of Jacob!                          Selah   
[9]   Behold our shield, O God;   
         look on the face of your anointed.

[10]  For a day in your courts is better   
         than a thousand elsewhere.   
    I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God   
         than live in the tents of wickedness.   
[11]  For the LORD God is a sun and shield;   
         he bestows favor and honor.   
    No good thing does the LORD withhold   
         from those who walk uprightly.   
[12]  O LORD of hosts,   
         happy is everyone who trusts in you.

 

Isaiah 52:13-53:12

[52:13]  See, my servant shall prosper;  
          he shall be exalted and lifted up,  
          and shall be very high.  
[14]  Just as there were many who were astonished at him  
          -- so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance,  
          and his form beyond that of mortals --  
[15]  so he shall startle many nations;  
          kings shall shut their mouths because of him;  
     for that which had not been told them they shall see,  
          and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate.

[53:1]  Who has believed what we have heard?  
          And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?  
[2]   For he grew up before him like a young plant,  
          and like a root out of dry ground;  
     he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,  
          nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.  
[3]   He was despised and rejected by others;  
          a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity;  
     and as one from whom others hide their faces  
          he was despised, and we held him of no account.

[4]   Surely he has borne our infirmities  
          and carried our diseases;  
     yet we accounted him stricken,  
          struck down by God, and afflicted.  
[5]   But he was wounded for our transgressions,  
          crushed for our iniquities;  
     upon him was the punishment that made us whole,  
          and by his bruises we are healed.  
[6]   All we like sheep have gone astray;  
          we have all turned to our own way,  
     and the LORD has laid on him  
          the iniquity of us all.

[7]   He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,  
          yet he did not open his mouth;  
     like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,  
          and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,  
          so he did not open his mouth.  
[8]   By a perversion of justice he was taken away.  
          Who could have imagined his future?  
     For he was cut off from the land of the living,  
          stricken for the transgression of my people.  
[9]   They made his grave with the wicked  
          and his tomb with the rich,  
     although he had done no violence,  
          and there was no deceit in his mouth.

[10]  Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him with pain.  
     When you make his life an offering for sin,  
          he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days;  
     through him the will of the LORD shall prosper.  
[11]       Out of his anguish he shall see light;  
     he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.  
          The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous,  
          and he shall bear their iniquities.  
[12]  Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,  
          and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;  
     because he poured out himself to death,  
          and was numbered with the transgressors;  
     yet he bore the sin of many,  
          and made intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah 52:7-12

[7]    How beautiful upon the mountains  

          are the feet of the messenger who announces peace,  

     who brings good news,  

          who announces salvation,  

          who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."  

[8]   Listen! Your sentinels lift up their voices,  

          together they sing for joy;  

     for in plain sight they see  

          the return of the LORD to Zion.  

[9]   Break forth together into singing,  

          you ruins of Jerusalem;  

     for the LORD has comforted his people,  

          he has redeemed Jerusalem.  

[10]  The LORD has bared his holy arm  

          before the eyes of all the nations;  

     and all the ends of the earth shall see  

          the salvation of our God.

[11]  Depart, depart, go out from there!  

          Touch no unclean thing;  

     go out from the midst of it, purify yourselves,  

          you who carry the vessels of the LORD.  

[12]  For you shall not go out in haste,  

          and you shall not go in flight;  

     for the LORD will go before you,  

          and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Psalm 145

[1]   I will extol you, my God and King,   
         and bless your name forever and ever.   
[2]   Every day I will bless you,   
         and praise your name forever and ever.   
[3]   Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;   
         his greatness is unsearchable.

[4]   One generation shall laud your works to another,   
         and shall declare your mighty acts.   
[5]   On the glorious splendor of your majesty,   
         and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.   
[6]   The might of your awesome deeds shall be proclaimed,   
         and I will declare your greatness.   
[7]   They shall celebrate the fame of your abundant goodness,   
         and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

[8]   The Lord is gracious and merciful,   
         slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.   
[9]   The Lord is good to all,   
         and his compassion is over all that he has made.

[10]  All your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord,   
         and all your faithful shall bless you.   
[11]  They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom,   
         and tell of your power,   
[12]  to make known to all people your mighty deeds,   
         and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.   
[13]  Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,   
         and your dominion endures throughout all generations.

    The Lord is faithful in all his words,   
         and gracious in all his deeds.   
[14]  The Lord upholds all who are falling,   
         and raises up all who are bowed down.   
[15]  The eyes of all look to you,   
         and you give them their food in due season.   
[16]  You open your hand,   
         satisfying the desire of every living thing.   
[17]  The Lord is just in all his ways,   
         and kind in all his doings.   
[18]  The Lord is near to all who call on him,   
         to all who call on him in truth.   
[19]  He fulfills the desire of all who fear him;   
         he also hears their cry, and saves them.   
[20]  The Lord watches over all who love him,   
         but all the wicked he will destroy.

[21]  My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,   
         and all flesh will bless his holy name forever and ever.

Isaiah 51:1-8

[1]   Listen to me, you that pursue righteousness,   
         you that seek the LORD.   
    Look to the rock from which you were hewn,   
         and to the quarry from which you were dug.   
[2]   Look to Abraham your father   
         and to Sarah who bore you;   
    for he was but one when I called him,   
         but I blessed him and made him many.   
[3]   For the LORD will comfort Zion;   
         he will comfort all her waste places,   
    and will make her wilderness like Eden,   
         her desert like the garden of the LORD;   
    joy and gladness will be found in her,   
         thanksgiving and the voice of song.

[4]   Listen to me, my people,   
         and give heed to me, my nation;   
    for a teaching will go out from me,   
         and my justice for a light to the peoples.   
[5]   I will bring near my deliverance swiftly,   
         my salvation has gone out   
         and my arms will rule the peoples;   
    the coastlands wait for me,   
         and for my arm they hope.   
[6]   Lift up your eyes to the heavens,   
         and look at the earth beneath;   
    for the heavens will vanish like smoke,   
         the earth will wear out like a garment,   
         and those who live on it will die like gnats;   
    but my salvation will be forever,   
         and my deliverance will never be ended.

[7]   Listen to me, you who know righteousness,   
         you people who have my teaching in your hearts;   
    do not fear the reproach of others,   
         and do not be dismayed when they revile you.   
[8]   For the moth will eat them up like a garment,   
         and the worm will eat them like wool;   
    but my deliverance will be forever,   
         and my salvation to all generations.

Mark 6:47-56

[47]When evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land. [48]When he saw that they were straining at the oars against an adverse wind, he came towards them early in the morning, walking on the sea. He intended to pass them by. [49]But when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and cried out; [50]for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, "Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid." [51]Then he got into the boat with them and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded, [52]for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

[53]When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat. [54]When they got out of the boat, people at once recognized him, [55]and rushed about that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. [56]And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.