Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

68 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm, a song of David. Rise doth God -- scattered are His enemies! And those hating Him flee from His face.

² As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.

³ And the righteous rejoice, they exult before God, And they joy with gladness.

⁴ Sing ye to God -- praise His name, Raise up a highway for Him who is riding in deserts, In Jah [is] His name, and exult before Him.

⁵ Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, [Is] God in His holy habitation.

⁶ God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.

⁷ O God, in Thy going forth before Thy people, In Thy stepping through the wilderness, Selah.

⁸ The earth hath shaken, Yea, the heavens have dropped before God, This Sinai -- before God, the God of Israel.

⁹ A shower of free-will gifts thou shakest out, O God. Thine inheritance, when it hath been weary, Thou hast established it.

¹⁰ Thy company have dwelt in it, Thou preparest in Thy goodness for the poor, O God.

¹⁹ Blessed [is] the Lord, day by day He layeth on us. God Himself [is] our salvation. Selah.

²⁰ God Himself [is] to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.

¹⁶ If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

¹⁷ And I do eat my morsel by myself, And the orphan hath not eat of it,

¹⁸ (But from my youth He grew up with me as [with] a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

¹⁹ If I see [any] perishing without clothing, And there is no covering to the needy,

²⁰ If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

²¹ If I have waved at the fatherless my hand, When I see in [him] the gate of my court,

²² My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

²³ For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able.

⁴⁰ And it came to pass, in the turning back of Jesus, the multitude received him, for they were all looking for him,

⁴¹ and lo, there came a man, whose name [is] Jairus, and he was a chief of the synagogue, and having fallen at the feet of Jesus, was calling on him to come to his house;

⁴² because he had an only daughter about twelve years [old], and she was dying. And in his going away, the multitudes were thronging him,

⁴³ and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any,

⁴⁴ having come near behind, touched the fringe of his garment, and presently the issue of her blood stood.

⁴⁵ And Jesus said, `Who [is] it that touched me?' and all denying, Peter and those with him said, `Master, the multitudes press thee, and throng [thee], and thou dost say, Who [is] it that touched me!'

⁴⁶ And Jesus said, `Some one did touch me, for I knew power having gone forth from me.'

⁴⁷ And the woman, having seen that she was not hid, trembling, came, and having fallen before him, for what cause she touched him declared to him before all the people, and how she was healed presently;

⁴⁸ and he said to her, `Take courage, daughter, thy faith hath saved thee, be going on to peace.'

⁴⁹ While he is yet speaking, there doth come a certain one from the chief of the synagogue's [house], saying to him -- `Thy daughter hath died, harass not the Teacher;'

⁵⁰ and Jesus having heard, answered him, saying, `Be not afraid, only believe, and she shall be saved.'

⁵¹ And having come to the house, he suffered no one to go in, except Peter, and James, and John, and the father of the child, and the mother;

⁵² and they were all weeping, and beating themselves for her, and he said, `Weep not, she did not die, but doth sleep;

⁵³ and they were deriding him, knowing that she did die;

⁵⁴ and he having put all forth without, and having taken hold of her hand, called, saying, `Child, arise;'

⁵⁵ and her spirit came back, and she arose presently, and he directed that there be given to her to eat;

⁵⁶ and her parents were amazed, but he charged them to say to no one what was come to pass.