Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26
Psalms 147:1-6
Matthew 9:35–10:1, 5-8
Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26
(19) For the people of Zion will live in Jerusalem. Bitterly, you will not weep. Mercifully, he will take pity on you. At the voice of your outcry, as soon as he hears, he will respond to you (20) And the Lord will give you thick bread and accessible water. And he will not cause your teacher to fly away from you anymore. And your eyes will behold your instructor (21) And your ears will listen to the word of one admonishing you behind your back: “This is the way! Walk in it! And do not turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left. (23) And wherever you sow seed upon the earth, rain will be given to the seed. And bread from the grain of the earth will be very plentiful and full. In that day, the lamb will pasture in the spacious land of your possession (24) And your bulls, and the colts of the donkeys that work the ground, will eat a mix of grains like that winnowed on the threshing floor (25) And there will be, on every lofty mountain, and on every elevated hill, rivers of running water, in the day of the slaughter of many, when the tower will fall (26) And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord will bind the wound of his people, and when he will heal the stroke of their scourge
Psalms 147:1-6
(1) Alleluia. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem. Praise your God, O Zion (2) For he has reinforced the bars of your gates. He has blessed your sons within you (3) He has stationed peace at your borders, and he has satisfied you with the fat of the grain (4) He sends forth his eloquence to the earth. His word runs swiftly (5) He provides snow like wool. He strews clouds like ashes (6) He sends his ice crystals like morsels. Who can stand firm before the face of his cold
Matthew 9:35–10:1, 5-8
(35) And Jesus traveled throughout all of the cities and towns, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every illness and every infirmity (36) Then, seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them, because they were distressed and were reclining, like sheep without a shepherd (37) Then he said to his disciples: “The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few (38) Therefore, petition the Lord of the harvest, so that he may sent out laborers to his harvest. (1) And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out and to cure every sickness and every infirmity (5) Jesus sent these twelve, instructing them, saying: “Do not travel by the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter into the city of the Samaritans (6) but instead go to the sheep who have fallen away from the house of Israel (7) And going forth, preach, saying: ‘For the kingdom of heaven has drawn near. (8) Cure the infirm, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You have received freely, so give freely
Isaiah 6:1-8
(1) In the year in which king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, sublime and exalted, and the things that were under him filled the temple (2) The Seraphims were standing above the throne. One had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they were covering his face, and with two they were covering his feet, and with two they were flying (3) And they were crying out to one another, and saying: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God of hosts! All the earth is filled with his glory! (4) And the lintels above the hinges were shaken at the voice of the one crying out. And the house was filled with smoke (5) And I said: “Woe to me! For I have remained silent. For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live in the midst of a people having unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King, the Lord of hosts! (6) And one of the Seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a burning coal, which he had taken with tongs from the altar (7) And he touched my mouth, and he said, “Behold, this has touched your lips, and so your iniquities will be taken away, and your sin will be cleansed. (8) And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: “Whom shall I send?” and, “Who will go for us?” And I said: “Here I am. Send me.
Psalms 40:2, 4, 7-11
(2) Blessed is he who shows understanding toward the needy and the poor. The Lord will deliver him in the evil day (4) May the Lord bring him help on his bed of sorrow. In his infirmity, you have changed his entire covering (7) And when he came in to see me, he was speaking emptiness. His heart gathered iniquity to itself. He went outside, and he was speaking in the same way (8) All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me (9) They established an unjust word against me. Will he that sleeps no longer rise again (10) For even the man of my peace, in whom I hoped, who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me (11) But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again. And I will requite them
Luke 10:1-9
(1) Then, after these things, the Lord also designated another seventy-two. And he sent them in pairs before his face, into every city and place where he was to arrive (2) And he said to them: “Certainly the harvest is great, but the workers are few. Therefore, ask the Lord of the harvest to send workers into his harvest (3) Go forth. Behold, I send you out like lambs among wolves (4) Do not choose to carry a purse, nor provisions, nor shoes; and you shall greet no one along the way (5) Into whatever house you will have entered, first say, ‘Peace to this house. (6) And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you (7) And remain in the same house, eating and drinking the things that are with them. For the worker is worthy of his pay. Do not choose to pass from house to house (8) And into whatever city you have entered and they have received you, eat what they set before you (9) And cure the sick who are in that place, and proclaim to them, ‘The kingdom of God has drawn near to you.
