Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁸ —Remember not the former things, neither consider the ancient things:

¹⁹ behold, I do a new thing; now it shall spring forth: shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the waste.

²⁰ The beast of the field shall glorify me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I will give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the waste, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

²¹ This people have I formed for myself: they shall shew forth my praise.

²² —But thou hast not called upon me, Jacob; for thou hast been weary of me, O Israel:

²³ thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings, neither hast thou glorified me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to toil with an oblation, nor wearied thee with incense.

²⁴ Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made me to toil with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

²⁵ —I, I [am] He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

41 Blessed is he that understandeth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.

² Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive; he shall be made happy in the land; and thou wilt not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

³ Jehovah will sustain him upon the bed of languishing: thou turnest all his bed in his sickness.

⁴ As for me, I said, Jehovah, be gracious unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

⁵ Mine enemies wish me evil: When will he die, and his name perish?

⁶ And if one come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].

⁷ All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt.

⁸ A thing of Belial cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he is laid down, he will rise up no more.

⁹ Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I confided, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.

¹⁰ But thou, Jehovah, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

¹¹ By this I know that thou delightest in me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

¹² But as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

¹³ Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, from eternity to eternity! Amen, and Amen.

¹⁸ Now God [is] faithful, that our word to you is not yea and nay.

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he who has been preached by us among you (by me and Silvanus and Timotheus), did not become yea and nay, but yea *is* in him.

²⁰ For whatever promises of God [there are], in him is the yea, and in him the amen, for glory to God by us.

²¹ Now he that establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, [is] God,

²² who also has sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

2 And he entered again into Capernaum after [several] days, and it was reported that he was at [the] house;

² and straightway many were gathered together, so that there was no longer any room, not even at the door; and he spoke the word to them.

³ And there come to him [men] bringing a paralytic, borne by four;

⁴ and, not being able to get near to him on account of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and having dug [it] up they let down the couch on which the paralytic lay.

⁵ But Jesus, seeing their faith, says to the paralytic, Child, thy sins are forgiven [thee].

⁶ But certain of the scribes were there sitting, and reasoning in their hearts,

⁷ Why does this [man] thus speak? he blasphemes. Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?

⁸ And straightway Jesus, knowing in his spirit that they are reasoning thus within themselves, said to them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

⁹ Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, [Thy] sins are forgiven [thee]; or to say, Arise, and take up thy couch and walk?

¹⁰ But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins, he says to the paralytic,

¹¹ To thee I say, Arise, take up thy couch and go to thine house.

¹² And he rose up straightway, and, having taken up his couch, went out before [them] all, so that all were amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it thus.