FIRST
READING: 2
Kings 17: 5 - 8, 13
- 15, 18
5
The army of the king of Asshur subjected the whole of Israel, and
they came to Samaria and laid siege to it for three years.
6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria,
exiled the Israelites to Asshur and made them settle in Halah, at the
banks of Habor, the river of Gozan, as well as in the cities of the
Medes.
7
This happened because the children of Israel had sinned against
Yahweh, their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt,
where they were subject to Pharaoh, but they had turned back to other
gods.
8
They followed the customs of the nations which Yahweh had driven out
before them.
13
Yahweh warned Israel and Judah through the mouth of every prophet and
seer, saying: "Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments
and precepts according to the laws which I commanded your fathers and
which I have sent to you by my servants, the prophets."
14
But they did not listen and refused as did their fathers who did not
believe in Yahweh, their God.
15
They despised his statutes and the covenant he had made with their
fathers, and the warnings he had given them. They went after
worthless idols and they themselves became worthless, following the
nations which surrounded them, in spite of what Yahweh had said, "Do
not do as they do."
18
So Yahweh became indignant with Israel and cast them far away from
his presence, leaving only the tribe of Judah.
PSALM:
Psalms 60:
3 - 5, 12 - 13
3
O God, you have rejected us and have broken our defenses; you have
been angry, but now turn back to us.
4
You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its cracks for it
totters.
5
You have made your people suffer; you have given us wine that makes
us stagger.
12
Have you not rejected us, O God? You no longer go with our armies.
13
Give us aid against the foe, for human help is not worth a straw.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 7:
1 - 5
1
Do not judge and you will not be judged.
2
In the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and the measure
you use for others will be used for you.
3
Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye and not see the
plank in your own eye?
4
How can you say to your brother: 'Come, let me take the speck from
your eye,' as long as that plank is in your own?
5
Hypocrite, take first the plank out of your own eye, then you will
see clear enough to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
