This translation is from the New American Bible. The bolded hyperlinks will take you to additional translations. The entire chapter is included to provide context.
Information about the meaning the original Hebrew or Greek of what seem to be key words is provided in blue. That information is provided beneath the specific reading the words are contained in.
Excerpts collected in yellow at the end of this post tell us something about God’s nature or our relationship to Him.
Excerpts collected in green at the end of this post tell us about something God wants us to do.
Excerpts collected in red at the end of this post tell us about something God does not want us to do.
Reading I
The Lord addressed Job out of the storm and said:
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Who shut within doors the sea, when it burst forth from the womb; when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling bands?
When I set limits for it and fastened the bar of its door, and said: Thus far shall you come but no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stilled!
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 107:23-24, 25-26, 28-29, 30-31
R. (1b) Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting.
They who sailed the sea in ships, trading on the deep waters,
These saw the works of the LORD and his wonders in the abyss.
R. Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting.
His command raised up a storm wind which tossed its waves on high.
They mounted up to heaven; they sank to the depths; their hearts melted away in their plight.
R. Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting.
They cried to the LORD in their distress; from their straits he rescued them,
He hushed the storm to a gentle breeze, and the billows of the sea were stilled.
R. Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting.
They rejoiced that they were calmed, and he brought them to their desired haven.
Let them give thanks to the LORD for his kindness and his wondrous deeds to the children of men.
R. Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting.
Give thanks = יָדָה = yāḏâ
to throw, shoot, cast; laud, praise; to profess, confess;to use (i.e. hold out) the hand; to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the hands);(make) confess(-ion); praise, celebrate
love = חֶסֶד = ḥeseḏ
goodness, kindness, faithfulness; favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-) kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity; kindness (especially as extended to the lowly, needy and miserable);lovely appearance; kindness, lovingkindness in condescending to the needs of his creatures; mercies, deeds of kindness; desire, ardor, zeal for, benignity, benevolence; grace
cried = צָעַק = ṣāʿaq
to cry, cry out, call, cry for help;cry out (in distress or need); to shriek
calm = שָׁתַק= šāṯaq
to be quiet, be silent; cease; subside, settle down
haven =מָחוֹז = māḥôz
city, harbor; sea coast, port
Reading II
Brothers and sisters:
The love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died. He indeed died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
Consequently, from now on we regard no one according to the flesh; even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer. So whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.
love= ἀγαπάω = agapaō
to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly;to be well pleased, to be contented at or with a thing;to take pleasure in the thing, prize it above other things, be unwilling to abandon it or do without it;to welcome with desire, long for
to be full of good-will and exhibit the same;to have a preference for, wish well to, regard the welfare of
Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
Love can be known only from the actions it prompts *** this is not the love of complacency, or affection, that is, it was not drawn out by any excellency in its objects; It was an exercise of the [] will in deliberate choice, made without assignable cause[]”
"Christian love, whether exercised toward the brethren, or toward men generally, is not an impulse from the feelings, it does not always run with the natural inclinations, nor does it spend itself only upon those for whom some affinity is discovered. Love seeks the welfare of all ... and works no ill to any[]; love seeks opportunity to do good to 'all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith'”
“In respect of agapao as used of God, it expresses the deep and constant ‘love’ and interest of a perfect Being towards entirely unworthy objects, producing and fostering a reverential "love" in them towards the Giver, and a practical "love" towards those who are partakers of the same, and a desire to help others to seek the Giver.”
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
greet with affection, show affection for; persuade, entreat; to be fond of, prize, desire; to be well pleased, contented
live= ζάω = zaō
"to live, be alive;"to live, breathe, be among the living (not lifeless, not dead); to have true life; having vital power in itself and exerting the same upon the soul; to be in full vigour; to be fresh, strong, efficient; powerful, efficacious
Alleluia
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
A great prophet has risen in our midst, God has visited his people.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
visited = ἐπισκέπτομαι = episkeptomai
to look upon or after, to inspect, examine with the eyes in order to see how he is, i.e. to visit, go to see one; to look upon in order to help or to benefit; to look after, have care for, provide for; to inspect, i.e. (by implication) to select; by extension, to go to see, relieve:—look out, visit
Gospel
On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to his disciples: “Let us cross to the other side.” Leaving the crowd, they took Jesus with them in the boat just as he was. And other boats were with him.
A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already filling up. Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. They woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”
He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was great calm.
Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?”
They were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?”
calm = γαλήνη = galēnē
calmness, stillness of the sea, a calm; tranquility
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
stillness of the sea, calm; stillness of deep waters; serenity
What these readings tell us about God/His ways:
shut within doors the sea
I made the clouds
[He] set limits for it and fastened the bar of its door
his love is everlasting.
the works of the LORD
his wonders in the abyss
his love is everlasting
His command raised up a storm
his love is everlasting
from their straits he rescued them
He hushed the storm to a gentle breeze
his love is everlasting
his kindness and his wondrous deeds to the children of men
his love is everlasting
The love of Christ impels us
one died for all; therefore, all have died
He indeed died for all, so that those who live might no longer live for themselves, but for himwho for their sake died and was raised
whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.
God has visited his people
He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!” The wind ceased and there was great calm
Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?
What these readings tell us to do:
Give thanks to the Lord
Give thanks to the Lord
Give thanks to the Lord
[cry] to the LORD in [our] distress
Give thanks to the Lord
give thanks to the LORD for his kindness and his wondrous deeds
Give thanks to the Lord
no longer live for [ourselves], but for him
have faith
filled with great awe
What these readings tell us not to do:
regard [others] according to the flesh
[be] terrified
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