Wednesday 20 July 2016

1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah,one of the priestswho were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.· · · verses 2–3 are not read4Now the Lord’s word came to me, saying,

5“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.Before you were born, I sanctified you.I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

6Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD!Behold, I don’t know how to speak;for I am a child.”

7But the Lord said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’for you must go to whomever I send you,and you must say whatever I command you.8Don’t be afraid because of them,for I am with you to rescue you,” says the Lord.

9Then the Lord stretched out his hand and touched my mouth.Then the Lord said to me,“Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.10Behold, I have today set you over the nationsand over the kingdoms,to uproot and to tear down,to destroy and to overthrow,to build and to plant.”

1In you, Lord, I take refuge.Never let me be disappointed.2Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me.Turn your ear to me, and save me.

3Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go.Give the command to save me,for you are my rock and my fortress.4Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

5For you are my hope, Lord GOD,my confidence from my youth.6I have relied on you from the womb.You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb.I will always praise you.

15My mouth will tell about your righteousness,and of your salvation all day,though I don’t know its full measure.17God, you have taught me from my youth.Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

1On that day Jesus went out of the houseand sat by the seaside.2Great multitudes gathered to him,so that he entered into a boat and sat;and all the multitude stood on the beach.3He spoke to them many things in parables,saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.4As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside,and the birds came and devoured them.5Others fell on rocky ground,where they didn’t have much soil,and immediately they sprang up,because they had no depth of earth.6When the sun had risen, they were scorched.Because they had no root, they withered away.7Others fell among thorns.The thorns grew up and choked them.8Others fell on good soil and yielded fruit:some one hundred times as much,some sixty, and some thirty.9He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”