Wednesday, August 18, 2027

Douay-Rheims: Judges 9:6-15

⁶And all the men of Sichem were gathered together, and all the families of the city of Mello: and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak that stood in Sichem. ⁷This being told to Joatham, he went and stood on the top of mount Garizim: and lifting up his voice, he cried, and said: Hear me, ye men of Sichem, so may God hear you. ⁸The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us. ⁹And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees? ¹⁰And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us. ¹¹And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees? ¹²And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us. ¹³And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God and men, and be promoted among the other trees? ¹⁴And all the trees said to the bramble: Come thou and reign over us. ¹⁵And it answered them: If indeed you mean to make me king, come ye and rest under my shadow: but if you mean it not, let fire come out from the bramble, and devour the cedars of Libanus.

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 20:2-7 (Psalm 21 at Mass)

²In thy strength, O Lord, the king shall joy; and in thy salvation he shall rejoice exceedingly. ³Thou hast given him his heart’s desire: and hast not withholden from him the will of his lips. ⁴For thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones. ⁵He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever. ⁶His glory is great in thy salvation: glory and great beauty shalt thou lay upon him. ⁷For thou shalt give him to be a blessing for ever and ever: thou shalt make him joyful in gladness with thy countenance.

Douay-Rheims: Matthew 20:1-16

¹The kingdom of heaven is like to an householder, who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. ²And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market place idle. ⁴And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just. ⁵And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner. ⁶But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? ⁷They say to him: Because no man hath hired us. He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard. ⁸And when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward: Call the labourers and pay them their hire, beginning from the last even to the first. ⁹When therefore they were come, that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. ¹⁰But when the first also came, they thought that they should receive more: and they also received every man a penny. ¹¹And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house, ¹²Saying: These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, that have borne the burden of the day and the heats. ¹³But he answering said to one of them: Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny? ¹⁴Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee. ¹⁵Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? is thy eye evil, because I am good? ¹⁶So shall the last be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.