Saturday 12 August 2028

12Aren’t you from everlasting, Lord my God, my Holy One?We will not die.Lord, you have appointed them for judgment.You, Rock, have established him to punish.13You who have purer eyes than to see evil,and who cannot look on perversity,why do you tolerate thosewho deal treacherously and keep silentwhen the wicked swallows up the manwho is more righteous than he,14and make men like the fish of the sea,like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?15He takes up all of them with the hook.He catches them in his netand gathers them in his dragnet.Therefore he rejoices and is glad.16Therefore he sacrifices to his netand burns incense to his dragnet,because by them his life is luxuriousand his food is good.17Will he therefore continually empty his net,and kill the nations without mercy?

1I will stand at my watch and set myself on the ramparts,and will look out to see what he will say to me,and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

2The 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.

8But the Lord reigns forever.He has prepared his throne for judgment.9He will judge the world in righteousness.He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

10The Lord will also be a high tower for the oppressed;a high tower in times of trouble.11Those who know your name will put their trust in you,for you, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

12Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion,and declare among the people what he has done.13For he who avenges blood remembers them.He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

14When they came to the multitude,a man came to him,kneeling down to him and saying,15“Lord, have mercy on my son,for he is epileptic and suffers grievously;for he often falls into the fire,and often into the water.16So I brought him to your disciples,and they could not cure him.”

17Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation!How long will I be with you?How long will I bear with you?Bring him here to me.”18Jesus rebuked the demon,and it went out of him,and the boy was cured from that hour.

19Then the disciples came to Jesus privately,and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”

20He said to them, “Because of your unbelief.For most certainly I tell you,if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed,you will tell this mountain,‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move;and nothing will be impossible for you.