Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

113 Hallelujah! Praise, ye servants of Jehovah, praise the name of Jehovah.

² Blessed be the name of Jehovah, from this time forth and for evermore!

³ From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, let Jehovah's name be praised.

⁴ Jehovah is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.

⁵ Who is like unto Jehovah our God, who hath placed his dwelling on high;

⁶ Who humbleth himself to look on the heavens and on the earth?

⁷ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy,

⁸ To set [him] among nobles, among the nobles of his people.

⁹ He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [as] a joyful mother of sons. Hallelujah!

¹⁹ And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begot Isaac.

²⁰ And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebecca as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.

²¹ And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren; and Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebecca his wife conceived.

²² And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If [it be] so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

²³ And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; And one people shall be stronger than the other people, And the elder shall serve the younger.

²⁴ And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

²⁵ And the first came out red—all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

²⁶ And after that came his brother out; and his hand took hold of Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

²⁷ And the boys grew, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob was a homely man, dwelling in tents.

²⁸ And Isaac loved Esau, because venison was to his taste; and Rebecca loved Jacob.

¹⁵ who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;

¹⁶ because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.

¹⁷ And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by him.

¹⁸ And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might have the first place in all things:

¹⁹ for in him all the fulness [of the Godhead] was pleased to dwell,

²⁰ and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross—by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.