FIRST
READING: 2 Kings 17:
5 - 8, 13 - 15, 18
5
Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Sama'ria,
and for three years he besieged it.
6
In the ninth year of Hoshe'a the king of Assyria captured Sama'ria,
and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and placed them in
Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the
Medes.
7
And this was so, because the people of Israel had sinned against the
LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from
under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods
8
and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out
before the people of Israel, and in the customs which the kings of
Israel had introduced.
13
Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer,
saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and
my statutes, in accordance with all the law which I commanded your
fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets."
14
But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had
been, who did not believe in the LORD their God.
15
They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their
fathers, and the warnings which he gave them. They went after false
idols, and became false, and they followed the nations that were
round about them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that
they should not do like them.
18
Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out
of his sight; none was left but the tribe of Judah only.
PSALM:
Psalms 60: 3 - 5, 12 - 13
3
O God, thou hast cast us off, and hast destroyed us; thou hast been
angry, and hast had mercy on us.
4
Thou hast moved the earth, and hast troubled it: heal thou the
breaches thereof, for it has been moved.
5
Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us drink wine
of sorrow.
12
Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God,
go out with our armies?
13
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the salvation of man.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 7: 1 - 5
1
"Judge not, that you be not judged.
2
For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the
measure you give will be the measure you get.
3
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not
notice the log that is in your own eye?
4
Or how can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of
your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye?
5
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you
will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
