Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

6 In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

² Seraphim were standing above him: each had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he flew.

³ And one called to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!

⁴ And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

⁵ And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.

⁶ And one of the seraphim flew unto me, and he had in his hand a glowing coal, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;

⁷ and he made it touch my mouth, and said, Behold, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.

⁸ And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.

⁹ And he said, Go; and thou shalt say unto this people, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive.

¹⁰ Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed.

¹¹ And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,

¹² and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be great in the midst of the land.

¹³ But a tenth part shall still be therein, and it shall return and be eaten; as the terebinth and as the oak whose trunk [remaineth] after the felling: the holy seed shall be the trunk thereof.

[A Psalm] of David.

138 I will give thee thanks with my whole heart; before the gods will I sing psalms of thee.

² I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness, and celebrate thy name for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth; for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

³ In the day when I called thou answeredst me; thou didst encourage me with strength in my soul.

⁴ All the kings of the earth shall celebrate thee, Jehovah, when they have heard the words of thy mouth;

⁵ And they shall sing in the ways of Jehovah, for great is the glory of Jehovah.

⁶ For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and the proud he knoweth afar off.

⁷ Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the anger of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

⁸ Jehovah will perfect what concerneth me: thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, [endureth] for ever; forsake not the works of thine own hands.

15 But I make known to you, brethren, the glad tidings which I announced to you, which also ye received, in which also ye stand,

² by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

³ For I delivered to you, in the first place, what also I had received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures;

⁴ and that he was buried; and that he was raised the third day, according to the scriptures;

⁵ and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

⁶ Then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most remain until now, but some also have fallen asleep.

⁷ Then he appeared to James; then to all the apostles;

⁸ and last of all, as to an abortion, he appeared to *me* also.

⁹ For *I* am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.

¹⁰ But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which [was] towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not *I*, but the grace of God which [was] with me.

¹¹ Whether, therefore, I or they, thus we preach, and thus ye have believed.

5 And it came to pass, as the crowd pressed on him to hear the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret:

² and he saw two ships standing by the lake, but the fishermen, having come down from them, were washing their nets.

³ And getting into one of the ships, which was Simon's, he asked him to draw out a little from the land; and he sat down and taught the crowds out of the ship.

⁴ But when he ceased speaking, he said to Simon, Draw out into the deep [water] and let down your nets for a haul.

⁵ And Simon answering said to him, Master, having laboured through the whole night we have taken nothing, but at thy word I will let down the net.

⁶ And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes. And their net broke.

⁷ And they beckoned to their partners who were in the other ship to come and help them, and they came, and filled both the ships, so that they were sinking.

⁸ But Simon Peter, seeing it, fell at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.

⁹ For astonishment had laid hold on him, and on all those who were with him, at the haul of fishes which they had taken;

¹⁰ and in like manner also on James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Fear not; henceforth thou shalt be catching men.

¹¹ And having run the ships on shore, leaving all they followed him.