Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Song of degrees.

134 Behold, bless Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah, who by night stand in the house of Jehovah.

² Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless Jehovah.

³ Jehovah, the maker of heavens and earth, bless thee out of Zion.

18 And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he sat at the tent-door in the heat of the day.

² And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men standing near him. And when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and bowed himself to the earth,

³ and said, Lord, if now I have found favour in thine eyes, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.

⁴ Let now a little water be fetched, that ye may wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

⁵ And I will fetch a morsel of bread; and refresh yourselves; after that ye shall pass on; for therefore have ye passed on towards your servant. And they said, So do as thou hast said.

⁶ And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Knead quickly three seahs of wheaten flour, and make cakes.

⁷ And Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf tender and good, and gave [it] to the attendant; and he hasted to dress it.

⁸ And he took thick and sweet milk, and the calf that he had dressed, and set [it] before them; and he stood before them under the tree, and they ate.

⁹ And they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

¹⁰ And he said, I will certainly return to thee at [this] time of the year, and behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah was listening at the tent-door, which was behind him.

¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were old [and] advanced in age: it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

¹² And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am become old, shall I have pleasure, and my lord old?

¹³ And Jehovah said to Abraham, Why is this, that Sarah laughs, saying, Shall I indeed bear, when I am become old?

¹⁴ Is [any] matter too wonderful for Jehovah? At the time appointed I will return to thee, at [this] time of the year, and Sarah shall have a son.

²³ being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by [the] living and abiding word of God.

²⁴ Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all its glory as [the] flower of grass. The grass has withered and [its] flower has fallen;

²⁵ but the word of [the] Lord abides for eternity. But this is the word which in the glad tidings [is] preached to you.