Friday of the 15th week of Ordinary Time

1In those days Hezekiah became ill and was near death. And so, Isaiah, the son of Amoz, the prophet, entered to him, and he said to him: “Thus says the Lord: Put your house in order, for you shall die, and you shall not live.” 2And Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and he prayed to the Lord. 3And he said: “I beg you, Lord, I beseech you, to remember how I walked before you in truth and with a whole heart, and that I have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping. 4And the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying: 5“Go and say to Hezekiah: Thus says the Lord, the God of David, your father: I have heard your prayer, and I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your days. 6And I will rescue you and this city from the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will protect it.

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21Now Isaiah had ordered them to take a paste of figs, and to spread it like plaster over the wound, so that he would be healed. 22And Hezekiah said, “What will be the sign that I may go up to the house of the Lord?”

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7And this will be a sign for you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this word, which he has spoken: 8Behold, I will cause the shadow of the lines, which has now descended on the sundial of Ahaz, to move in reverse for ten lines.” And so, the sun moved backward by ten lines, through the degrees by which it had descended.

10“I said: In the middle of my days, I will go to the gates of Hell. So I sought the remainder of my years.

11I said: I will not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I will no longer behold man, nor the habitation of rest.

12My longevity has been taken away; it has been folded up and taken from me, like the tent of a shepherd. My life has been cut off, as if by a weaver. While I was still beginning, he cut me off. From morning until evening, you have marked out my limits.

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16O Lord, if such is life, and if the life of my spirit is of such a kind, may you correct me and may you cause me to live.

1At that time, Jesus went out through the ripe grain on the Sabbath. And his disciples, being hungry, began to separate the grain and to eat. 2Then the Pharisees, seeing this, said to him, “Behold, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbaths.” 3But he said to them: “Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him: 4how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbaths the priests in the temple violate the Sabbath, and they are without guilt? 6But I say to you, that something greater than the temple is here. 7And if you knew what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would never have condemned the innocent. 8For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”