Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

146 Praise ye Jah! Praise, O my soul, Jehovah.

² I praise Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist.

³ Trust not in princes -- in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance.

⁴ His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.

⁵ O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope [is] on Jehovah his God,

⁶ Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that [is] in them, Who is keeping truth to the age,

⁷ Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.

⁸ Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous,

⁹ Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

¹⁰ Jehovah doth reign to the age, Thy God, O Zion, to generation and generation, Praise ye Jah!

¹⁷ `Thou dost not turn aside the judgment of a fatherless sojourner, nor take in pledge the garment of a widow;

¹⁸ and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee from thence; therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing.

¹⁹ `When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in a field, thou dost not turn back to take it; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is; so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

²⁰ `When thou beatest thine olive, thou dost not examine the branch behind thee; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is.

²¹ `When thou cuttest thy vineyard, thou dost not glean behind thee; to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, it is;

²² and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding thee to do this thing.

¹² And on the morrow, they having come forth from Bethany, he hungered,

¹³ and having seen a fig-tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he shall find anything in it, and having come to it, he found nothing except leaves, for it was not a time of figs,

¹⁴ and Jesus answering said to it, `No more from thee -- to the age -- may any eat fruit;' and his disciples were hearing.

²⁰ And in the morning, passing by, they saw the fig-tree having been dried up from the roots,

²¹ and Peter having remembered saith to him, `Rabbi, lo, the fig-tree that thou didst curse is dried up.'

²² And Jesus answering saith to them, `Have faith of God;

²³ for verily I say to you, that whoever may say to this mount, Be taken up, and be cast into the sea, and may not doubt in his heart, but may believe that the things that he saith do come to pass, it shall be to him whatever he may say.

²⁴ Because of this I say to you, all whatever -- praying -- ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.