Saturday after Ash Wednesday

9Then you will call, and the LORD will answer.

You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’

“If you take away from among you the yoke,

finger pointing,

and speaking wickedly;

10and if you pour out your soul to the hungry,

and satisfy the afflicted soul,

then your light will rise in darkness,

and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

11and the LORD will guide you continually,

satisfy your soul in dry places,

and make your bones strong.

You will be like a watered garden,

and like a spring of water

whose waters don’t fail.

12Those who will be of you will build the old waste places.

You will raise up the foundations of many generations.

You will be called Repairer of the Breach,

Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.

13“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,

from doing your pleasure on my holy day,

and call the Sabbath a delight,

and the holy of the LORD honorable,

and honor it,

not doing your own ways,

nor finding your own pleasure,

nor speaking your own words,

14then you will delight yourself in the LORD,

and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth,

and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;”

for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.

1Hear, LORD, and answer me,

for I am poor and needy.

2Preserve my soul, for I am godly.

You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.

3Be merciful to me, Lord,

for I call to you all day long.

4Bring joy to the soul of your servant,

for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,

abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

6Hear, LORD, my prayer.

Listen to the voice of my petitions.

27After these things he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!” 28He left everything, and rose up and followed him. 29Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them. 30Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?” 31Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do. 32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”