FIRST
READING: Amos 9:
11 - 15
11
"In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in
the days of old;
12
that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are
called by my name," says the LORD who does this.
13
"Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when
the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him
who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the
hills shall flow with it.
14
I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall
rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant
vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat
their fruit.
15
I will plant them upon their land, and they shall never again be
plucked up out of the land which I have given them," says the
LORD your God.
PSALM:
Psalms 85: 9 - 14
9
Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him, that glory
may dwell in our land.
10
Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace
will kiss each other.
11
Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will
look down from the sky.
12
Yea, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its
increase.
13
Righteousness will go before him, and make his footsteps a way.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 9: 14 - 17
14
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, "Why do we and
the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"
15
And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding guests mourn as long as
the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom
is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
16
And no one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the
patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made.
17
Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skins
burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new
wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."
