Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

69 (For the one directing. Al Shoshanim. Of Dovid.) Hoshi’eini, O Elohim; for the mayim are come unto my nefesh (i.e., neck).

^2 (3) I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of the mayim, where the floods overflow me.

^3 (4) I am weary of my crying out; my garon (throat) is dry; mine eyes fail while I wait for Elohai.

^13 (14) But as for me, may my tefillah be unto Thee, Hashem, in an et ratzon (acceptable time, time of favor); O Elohim, in the multitude of Thy chesed hear me, in the emes of Thy salvation.

^14 (15) Save me out of the teet (mire, clay, soil) and let me not sink; let me be saved from them that hate me, and out of the depths of the mayim.

^15 (16) Let not the floodwaters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the be’er (pit) shut her mouth upon me.

^16 (17) Hear me, Hashem, for Thy chesed is tov; turn unto me according to the multitude of Thy rachamim;

^30 (31) I will praise Shem Elohim b’shir (in song), and will magnify Him with todah (thanksgiving).

^31 (32) This also shall please Hashem better than shor (ox) or bull that hath keren (horn) and parsah (hoof).

^32 (33) Those that have anavah (meekness, humility) shall see this, and have simchah; and your [pl.] lev shall live that seek Elohim.

^33 (34) For Hashem heareth the evyonim (needy ones, poor), and despiseth not His prisoners.

^34 (35) Let the Shomayim v’Aretz praise Him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

^35 (36) For Elohim yoshi’a (will save) Tziyon, and will build the cities of Yehudah; that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

^36 (37) The zera also of His avadim shall inherit it; and they that love Shmo shall dwell therein.

11 And the kol HaAretz was of one language and of devarim achadim (common words).

² And it came to pass, as they migrated from the east, that they found a plain in Eretz Shinar; and they dwelt there.

³ And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and bake them thoroughly. And they had brick for even (stone), and bitumen had they for mortar.

⁴ And they said, Come, let us build us an Ir and a Migdal, whose rosh (top) may reach unto Shomayim; and let us make us a shem, otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of kol HaAretz.

⁵ And Hashem came down to see the Ir and the Migdal, which Bnei HaAdam built.

⁶ And Hashem said, See, the Am is echad and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be impossible for them, which they have proposed to do.

⁷ Come, let Us go down, and there confuse their sefat, that they may not understand one another’s language.

⁸ So Hashem scattered them abroad from there upon the face of kol Ha’Aretz; and they left off building the Ir.

⁹ Therefore is the shem of it called Babel; because Hashem did there confuse the language of kol Ha’Aretz; and from there did Hashem scatter them abroad upon the face of kol Ha’Aretz.

¹³ Enter through the derech (way) of the shaar hatzarut (gate of narrowness), for wide is the delet and broad is the rekhov (street) leading to Avaddon (destruction, hell, Abbadon), and rabbim (many) are they who enter through it.

¹⁴ But tzar (narrow) is the delet and constricted is the Derech (Way) that leads to Chayyim (life) and few are the ones finding it.

¹⁵ Beware of the neviei hasheker (false prophets), who come to you in the malbush (clothing) of kevasim (sheep), but within are ravenous ze’evim (wolves).

¹⁶ By their perot (fruits) you will have da’as of them. Surely grapes are not gathered from thorns nor figs from thistles, are they?

¹⁷ So every etz tov (good tree) produces pri tov (good fruit), but the etz nishchat (corrupt tree) produces pri rah.

¹⁸ An etz tov is not able to produce pri rah nor is an etz nishchat able to produce pri tov.

¹⁹ Kol etz (every tree) not producing pri tov is cut off and is thrown into HaEish (the Fire) (YESHAYAH 66:24; DANIEL 12:2).

²⁰ Therefore, by their perot (fruits) you shall have da’as of them.