Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

121 A Song of the Ascents. I lift up mine eyes unto the hills, Whence doth my help come?

² My help [is] from Jehovah, maker of heaven and earth,

³ He suffereth not thy foot to be moved, Thy preserver slumbereth not.

⁴ Lo, He slumbereth not, nor sleepeth, He who is preserving Israel.

⁵ Jehovah [is] thy preserver, Jehovah [is] thy shade on thy right hand,

⁶ By day the sun doth not smite thee, Nor the moon by night.

⁷ Jehovah preserveth thee from all evil, He doth preserve thy soul.

⁸ Jehovah preserveth thy going out and thy coming in, From henceforth even unto the age!

⁴³ And Laban answereth and saith unto Jacob, `The daughters [are] my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that thou art seeing [is] mine; and to my daughters -- what do I to these to-day, or to their sons whom they have born?

⁴⁴ and now, come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and it hath been for a witness between me and thee.'

⁴⁵ And Jacob taketh a stone, and lifteth it up [for] a standing pillar;

⁴⁶ and Jacob saith to his brethren, `Gather stones,' and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap;

⁴⁷ and Laban calleth it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob hath called it Galeed.

⁴⁸ And Laban saith, `This heap [is] witness between me and thee to-day;' therefore hath he called its name Galeed;

⁴⁹ Mizpah also, for he said, `Jehovah doth watch between me and thee, for we are hidden one from another;

⁵⁰ if thou afflict my daughters, or take wives beside my daughters -- there is no man with us -- see, God [is] witness between me and thee.'

⁵¹ And Laban saith to Jacob, `Lo, this heap, and lo, the standing pillar which I have cast between me and thee;

⁵² this heap [is] witness, and the standing pillar [is] witness, that I do not pass over this heap unto thee, and that thou dost not pass over this heap and this standing pillar unto me -- for evil;

⁵³ the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, doth judge between us -- the God of their father,' and Jacob sweareth by the Fear of his father Isaac.

⁵⁴ And Jacob sacrificeth a sacrifice in the mount, and calleth to his brethren to eat bread, and they eat bread, and lodge in the mount;

⁵⁵ and Laban riseth early in the morning, and kisseth his sons and his daughters, and blesseth them; and Laban goeth on, and turneth back to his place.

32 And Jacob hath gone on his way, and messengers of God come upon him;

² and Jacob saith, when he hath seen them, `This [is] the camp of God;' and he calleth the name of that place `Two Camps.'

¹⁴ These things remind [them] of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

¹⁵ be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

¹⁶ and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

¹⁷ and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

¹⁸ who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;

¹⁹ sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness -- every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

²⁰ And in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honour, and some to dishonour:

²¹ if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,

²² and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

²³ and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

²⁴ and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

²⁵ in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

²⁶ and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.