Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

28 (Of Dovid) Unto Thee will I cry, Hashem my Tzur; do not turn a deaf ear to me: lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

² Shema (hear) kol (voice) of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee, when I lift up my hands toward Thy Devir Kodesh (Innermost Sanctuary, Kodesh HaKodashim).

³ Draw me not away with the resha’im, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak shalom to their neighbors, but malice is in their hearts.

⁴ Give to them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors; give them after the work of their hands; render to them their gemul (deserts).

⁵ Because they regard not the Pe’ulot Hashem, nor the Ma’aseh of His hands, He shall tear them down, and not build them up.

⁶ Baruch Hashem, because He hath heard the kol (voice) of my supplications.

⁷ Hashem is my strength and my mogen; my lev trusts in Him, and I am helped; therefore my lev greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I thank Him.

⁸ Hashem is their oz (strength), and He is the Ma’oz Yeshu’ot (saving refuge) of His Moshiach.

⁹ Save Thy people, and bless Thine nachalah; shepherd them also, and carry them ad olam.

¹⁵ And Moshe spoke unto Hashem, saying,

¹⁶ Let Hashem Elohei HaRuchot L’khol Basar appoint an Ish over HaEdah,

¹⁷ Which will go out before them, and which will come in before them, and which will lead them out, and which will bring them in; that the Adat Hashem be not like tzon which have no ro’eh.

¹⁸ And Hashem said unto Moshe, Take thee Yehoshua Ben Nun, an ish in whom is the Ruach [HaKodesh], and lay thine yad [for s’michah] upon him [Zech 6:11-12];

¹⁹ And stand him before Eleazar HaKohen, and before kol HaEdah and give him a charge (instruct him with regard to his office) before their eyes.

²⁰ And thou shalt lay of thine hod (dignity, authority, majesty) upon him, so that kol Adat Bnei Yisroel will obey.

²¹ And he shall stand before Eleazar HaKohen, who shall ask counsel for him after the mishpat HaUrim before Hashem: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and kol Bnei Yisroel with him, even kol HaEdah.

²² And Moshe did just as Hashem commanded him; and he took Yehoshua, and stood him before Eleazar HaKohen, and before kol HaEdah:

²³ And he laid his yadayim [for s’michah] upon him, and gave him a charge (instructed him with regard to his office), just as Hashem commanded by yad Moshe.

⁸ Remember Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, of the zera Dovid, and remember the Techiyas HaMoshiach, according to my Besuras HaGeulah,

⁹ For which I suffer as if I were an evil-doer, even to the point of the bais hasohar’s bonds, but the Dvar Hashem has no bonds.

¹⁰ Therefore, I endure all things for the sake of the Bechirim (the Chosen ones), in order that they also may obtain the Yeshu’at HaEloheinu in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua with kavod olamim.

¹¹ Trustworthy is Hashem, for if we died [to the Olam Hazeh] with Him, also we will live [in the Olam Habah] with Him.

¹² If we endure, we also will reign with Him; if we will deny Him, He also will deny us.

¹³ If we are not ne’emanim (faithful), He remains ne’eman (faithful), for to deny Himself, He is not able.