Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

40 I waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined to me and heard my cry.

² Also, He brought me out of the horrible pit—out of the miry clay—and set my feet upon the rock and ordered my goings.

³ And He has put in my mouth a new song of praise to our God. Many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the LORD.

⁴ Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not regard the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

⁵ You have made many, O LORD my God, Your wonderful works; so that no one can count to You, in order, Your thoughts toward us. I would declare and speak of them, but they are more than I am able to express.

⁶ Sacrifice and offering You did not desire (my ears You have prepared). Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

⁷ Then I said, “Lo, I come. In the roll of the Book it is written of me.

⁸ “I desired to do Your good will, O my God. Indeed, Your Law is within my heart.”

⁹ I have declared righteousness in the great congregation. Lo, I will not refrain my lips. O LORD, You know.

¹⁰ I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart. I have declared Your truth and Your salvation. I have not concealed Your mercy and Your truth from the great Congregation.

¹¹ Do not withdraw Your tender mercy from me, O LORD. Let Your mercy and Your truth always preserve me.

³⁰ And when Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob and Jacob had barely gone out from the presence of Isaac, his father, then Esau, his brother, came from his hunting.

³¹ And he also prepared savory meat and brought it to his father, and said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s food, so that your soul may bless me.”

³² But his father, Isaac, said to him, “Who are you?” And he answered, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

³³ Then Isaac trembled exceedingly, and said, “Who and where is he who hunted food and brought it to me; and I have eaten of all before you came? And I have blessed him; therefore, he shall be blessed.”

³⁴ When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with a great cry and bitter, out of measure, and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, my father.”

³⁵ Who answered, “Your brother came with subtlety and has taken away your blessing.”

³⁶ Then he said, “Was he not justly called “Jacob”? For he has deceived me these two times. He took my birthright; and lo, now has he taken my blessing.” Also, he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

³⁷ Then Isaac answered, and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord; and I have made all his brothers his servants. And I have furnished him with wheat and wine. And what now shall I do for you, my son?”

³⁸ Then Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me; me, also, my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

1 I have made the first account, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began to do and teach

² until the day He was taken up (after He, through the Holy Ghost, had given Commandments to the Apostles whom He had chosen -

³ and to whom He presented Himself alive by many sure signs after He had suffered - being seen by them over forty days and speaking of those things concerning the Kingdom of God).

⁴ And when He had gathered them together, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, He said, “You have heard from Me.

⁵ “For John indeed baptized with water. But you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost within a few days.”