Friday 5 July 2024

4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,and cause the poor of the land to fail,5saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain?And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat,making the ephah small, and the shekel large,and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;6that we may buy the poor for silver,and the needy for a pair of sandals,and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”· · · verses 7–8 are not read9It will happen in that day,” says the Lord GOD,“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,and I will darken the earth in the clear day.10I will turn your feasts into mourning,and all your songs into lamentation;and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,and baldness on every head.I will make it like the mourning for an only son,and its end like a bitter day.11Behold, the days come,” says the Lord GOD,“that I will send a famine in the land,not a famine of bread,nor a thirst for water,but of hearing the Lord’s words.12They will wander from sea to sea,and from the north even to the east;they will run back and forth to seek the Lord’s word,and will not find it.

2Blessed are those who keep his statutes,who seek him with their whole heart.10With my whole heart I have sought you.Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

20My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.30I have chosen the way of truth.I have set your ordinances before me.

40Behold, I long for your precepts!Revive me in your righteousness.131I opened my mouth wide and panted,for I longed for your commandments.

9As Jesus passed by from there,he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office.He said to him, “Follow me.”He got up and followed him.10As he sat in the house,behold, many tax collectors and sinners cameand sat down with Jesus and his disciples.11When the Pharisees saw it,they said to his disciples,“Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

12When Jesus heard it,he said to them, “Thosewho are healthy have no need for a physician,but those who are sick do.13But you go and learn what this means:‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’for I came not to call the righteous,but sinners to repentance.”