Psalm 113

²⁸ The young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.^{(A) 29} Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban,^(B) and he hurried out to the man at the spring. ³⁰ As soon as he had seen the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms,^(C) and had heard Rebekah tell what the man said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring. ³¹ “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord,”^(D) he said. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”

³² So the man went to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder^(E) were brought for the camels, and water for him and his men to wash their feet.^{(F) 33} Then food was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say.”

“Then tell us,” Laban said.

³⁴ So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.^{(G) 35} The Lord has blessed^(H) my master abundantly,^(I) and he has become wealthy.^(J) He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.^{(K) 36} My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age,^(L) and he has given him everything he owns.^{(M) 37} And my master made me swear an oath,^(N) and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,^{(O) 38} but go to my father’s family and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.’^(P)

³⁹ “Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’^(Q)

⁴⁰ “He replied, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked faithfully,^(R) will send his angel with you^(S) and make your journey a success,^(T) so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my father’s family.^{(U) 41} You will be released from my oath if, when you go to my clan, they refuse to give her to you—then you will be released from my oath.’^(V)

⁴² “When I came to the spring today, I said, ‘Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you will, please grant success^(W) to the journey on which I have come.

¹⁶ He went to Nazareth,^(A) where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue,^(B) as was his custom. He stood up to read,^{(C) 17} and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

²⁰ Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down.^(G) The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. ²¹ He began by saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled^(H) in your hearing.”

²² All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked.^(I)

²³ Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown^(J) what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’”^(K)

²⁴ “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown.^{(L) 25} I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.^{(M) 26} Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.^{(N) 27} And there were many in Israel with leprosy^[b] in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”^(O)

²⁸ All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. ²⁹ They got up, drove him out of the town,^(P) and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. ³⁰ But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.^(Q)