IVangeli lango-Okthoba 3, 2018

Incwadi kaJobe 9,1-12.14-16-XNUMX.
UJobe waphendula kubangane bakhe wathi:
Ngiqinisile ngiyazi ukuthi kunjalo: futhi umuntu angaba kanjani olungile phambi kukaNkulunkulu?
Uma umuntu efuna ukuphikisana naye, wayengeke amphendule kanye inkulungwane.
Sage of mind, enamandla ngamandla, ngubani owamelana naye futhi wagcina ephephile?
Unyakazisa izintaba, abamazi, ngentukuthelo yakhe uyabasusa.
Unyakazisa umhlaba usendaweni yawo, nezinsika zawo ziyathuthumela.
Iyala ilanga futhi ayiphumi futhi ibeka uphawu lwayo ezinkanyezini.
Nguye kuphela owelula isibhakabhaka futhi uhamba phezu kwamagagasi olwandle.
Dala i-Ursa ne-Orion, ama-Pleiade nokufika kwesibhakabhaka eseningizimu.
Wenza izinto ezinkulu kangangokuba angakwazi ukuphenya, uyazibuza ukuthi angeke akwazi ukuzibala.
Bheka, udlula kimi angimboni, uyahamba angimqapheli.
Uma ethumba okuthile, ubani ongamvimbela? Ngubani ongathi, "Wenzani?"
Kakhulu kangakanani engingakwazi ukumphendula, ngithole amazwi engizowasho kuye!
Ukube nami bengilungile, bengingaphenduli, umahluleli wami kufanele ngicele isihe.
Uma bengimcela futhi angiphendule, angikholwa ukuthi ulalele izwi lami.

Salmi 88(87),10bc-11.12-13.14-15.
Usuku lonke ngikubiza, Nkosi,
ngidlulisela izandla zami kuwe.
Ingabe wenza izimangaliso ngabafileyo?
Noma kuvela izithunzi zokukudumisa?

Mhlawumbe ubuhle bakho bugujwa ethuneni,
ukuthembeka kwakho ezweni elingaphansi?
Ebumnyameni mhlawumbe izimangaliso zakho ziyaziwa,
ubulungiswa bakho ezweni lokuqothuka?

Kepha kuwe, Jehova, ngikhala ngicela usizo
ekuseni umkhuleko wami ufika kuwe.
Kungani, Jehova, ungilahla,
ubuselani ubuso bakho kimi?

Kusuka kwiVangeli likaJesu Kristu ngokukaLuka 9,57-62.
Ngaleso sikhathi, ngenkathi behla ngomgwaqo, othile wathi kuJesu: "Ngizokulandela nomaphi lapho uya khona."
UJesu waphendula wathi: "Izimpungushe zinezindawo zazo zokuhlala nezinyoni zezulu izidleke zazo, kepha iNdodana yomuntu kayinandawo yokubeka ikhanda kuyo."
Komunye wathi: "Ngilandele." Yathi: "Nkosi, ngivumele ngihambe ngiyongcwaba ubaba kuqala."
UJesu waphendula: “Bayeke abafileyo bangcwabe abafileyo babo; hamba umemezele umbuso kaNkulunkulu ».
Omunye wathi, "Ngizokulandela, Nkosi, kepha ake ungivumele ngiqale labo ekhaya."
Kepha uJesu wathi kuye: "Akekho obeke isandla sakhe epulazini, abheke emuva, uwulungele umbuso kaNkulunkulu."