Monday 9 June 2025

7The Lord spoke to Moses, “Go, get down;for your people,whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt,have corrupted themselves!8They have turned away quickly out of the waywhich I commanded them.They have made themselves a molded calf,and have worshiped it,and have sacrificed to it,and said, ‘These are your gods,Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

9The Lord said to Moses,“I have seen these people,and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.10Now therefore leave me alone,that my wrath may burn hot against them,and that I may consume them;and I will make of you a great nation.”

11Moses begged the Lord his God,and said, “Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people,that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great powerand with a mighty hand?12Why should the Egyptians talk,saying, ‘He brought them out for evil,to kill them in the mountains,and to consume them from the surface of the earth’?Turn from your fierce wrath,and turn away from this evil against your people.13Remember Abraham, Isaac,and Israel, your servants,to whom you swore by your own self,and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky,and all this landthat I have spoken of I will give to your offspring,and they shall inherit it forever.’”

14So the Lord turned away from the evilwhich he said he would do to his people.

1Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.2My soul, you have said to the Lord, “You are my Lord.Apart from you I have no good thing.”5The Lord assigned my portion and my cup.You made my lot secure.

7I will bless the Lord, who has given me counsel.Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.8I have set the Lord always before me.Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

11You will show me the path of life.In your presence is fullness of joy.In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

35Jesus went about all the cities and the villages,teaching in their synagoguesand preaching the Good News of the Kingdom,and healing every diseaseand every sickness among the people.36But when he saw the multitudes,he was moved with compassion for thembecause they were harassed and scattered,like sheep without a shepherd.37Then he said to his disciples,“The harvest indeed is plentiful,but the laborers are few.38Pray thereforethat the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”