Sunday 5 October 2031

2Lord, how long will I cry, and you will not hear?I cry out to you “Violence!”and will you not save?3Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity?For destruction and violence are before me.There is strife, and contention rises up.

· · · some verses are not read2The Lord answered me,“Write the vision,and make it plain on tablets,that he who runs may read it.3For the vision is yet for the appointed time,and it hurries toward the end,and won’t prove false.Though it takes time,wait for it, because it will surely come.It won’t delay.4Behold, his soul is puffed up.It is not upright in him,but the righteous will live by his faith.

1Oh come, let’s sing to the Lord.Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!2Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving.Let’s extol him with songs!

6Oh come, let’s worship and bow down.Let’s kneel before the Lord, our Maker,7for he is our God.We are the people of his pasture,and the sheep in his care.Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

8Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah,as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,9when your fathers tempted me,tested me, and saw my work.

6For this cause, I remind youthat you should stir up the gift of Godwhich is in you through the laying on of my hands.7For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear,but of power, love, and self-control.8Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord,nor of me his prisoner;but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

· · · verses 9–12 are not read13Hold the pattern of sound wordswhich you have heard from me,in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.14That good thing which was committed to you,guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

5The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

6The Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed,you would tell this sycamore tree,‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’and it would obey you.7But who is there among you,having a servant plowing or keeping sheep,that will say when he comes in from the field,‘Come immediately and sit down at the table’?8Wouldn’t he rather tell him,‘Prepare my supper,clothe yourself properly,and serve me while I eat and drink.Afterward you shall eat and drink’?9Does he thank that servantbecause he did the things that were commanded?I think not.10Even so you also, when you have done all the thingsthat are commanded you,say, ‘We are unworthy servants.We have done our duty.’”