Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

96 O sing unto Hashem a shir chadash; sing unto Hashem, kol ha’aretz.

² Sing unto Hashem, barakhu Shmo, show forth His Yeshuah (salvation) from day to day.

³ Declare His kavod among the Goyim, His nifle’ot (marvelous deeds) among all peoples.

⁴ For Hashem is gadol, and me’od to be praised; He is to be feared above all elohim.

⁵ For kol elohei HaAmim are elilim (idols); but Hashem made Shomayim.

⁶ Hod and hadar are before Him; oz and tiferet are in His Mikdash.

⁷ Render unto Hashem, O ye mishpekhot of the nations, render unto Hashem kavod and oz.

⁸ Render unto Hashem the kavod due unto Shmo; bring a minchah, and come into His khatzerot (courtyards).

⁹ O worship Hashem in the hadrat Kodesh; fear before Him, kol ha’aretz.

¹⁰ Say among the Goyim that Hashem reigneth; the tevel also is established that it shall not be moved; He shall judge the Amim bemeysharim (in equity, in uprightness).

¹¹ Let Shomayim rejoice, and let ha’aretz be glad; let the yam roar, and the fullness thereof.

¹² Let the sadeh be jubilant, and all that is therein; then shall kol atzei ya’ar (all the trees of the forest) sing for joy

¹³ Before Hashem; for He cometh, for He cometh to judge ha’aretz; He shall judge tevel betzedek (world in righteousness), and Amim with His emunah (truth).

³ And it shall come to pass in the day that Hashem shall give thee rest from thy etzev (sorrow), and from thy rogez (turmoil), and from the avodah hakashah (hard bondage) wherein thou wast made to serve,

⁴ That thou shalt take up this mashal against Melech Bavel, and say, How hath the nogesh (oppressor) ceased! How hast fury ceased!

⁵ Hashem hath broken the matteh (rod) of the resha’im (wicked), and the shevet (sceptre) of the moshlim (rulers).

⁶ Which struck the peoples in wrath with makkat bilti sarah (a continual stroke), which ruled the Goyim in anger, with unrestrained aggression.

⁷ Kol ha’aretz is at rest, and is quiet; they break forth into rinnah (joyful shouts).

⁸ Indeed, the cypress trees rejoice over thee, and the cedars of Levanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no hakoret ([forest] cutter) is come up against us.

⁹ Sheol from beneath is astir for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the refa’im for thee, even all the attudei aretz (he-goat world leaders); it hath raised up from their kise’ot (thrones) all the melachim of the Goyim.

¹⁰ Kullam (all of them) shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?

¹¹ Thy ga’on (pomp, pride) is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy nevalim (harps); the rimmah (graveworm) is spread out under thee, and the tola’at (worm) covers thee.

14 At that time reports about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came to the oznayim (ears) of Herod the Tetrarch.

² And he said to his servants, This one is Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva. He has had his Techiyah (Resurrection) from HaMesim (the Dead) and for this reason the moftim (wonders) are working in him.

³ For Herod had Yochanan arrested and bound him and threw him into the beit hasohar (prison), on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip.

⁴ For Yochanan kept on saying to him, It is asur for you to have her.

⁵ And [although] Herod was desiring to kill Yochanan, he feared the crowd, because they considered Yochanan a Navi.

⁶ Now at the yom huledet celebration of Herod, it came about that the daughter of Herodias danced before them and Herod was pleased.

⁷ Herod, therefore, with a shevuah, promised to give to her whatever she might ask.

⁸ So she, prompted by her mother, said, Give to me here upon a serving tray the rosh (head) Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva.

⁹ And, although grieving, the king commanded [it] to be given, on account of the shevuot (oaths) and the fellow muzmanim (guests)

¹⁰ And he sent and had Yochanan beheaded in the beit hasohar.

¹¹ And the rosh Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva was brought upon a serving tray, and it was presented to the girl and she presented it to her mother.

¹² And Yochanan’s talmidim approached and carried away the niftar (deceased person) and buried him. Then they went and reported [it] to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.