Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴ Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

⁵ “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”

⁶ Then said I, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child.”

⁷ But the Lord said unto me, “Say not, ‘I am a child,’ for thou shalt go to all whom I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

⁸ Be not afraid of their faces, for I am with thee to deliver thee,” saith the Lord.

⁹ Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, “Behold, I have put My words in thy mouth.

¹⁰ See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out and to pull down, and to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.”

71 In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be put to confusion.

² Deliver me in Thy righteousness, and cause me to escape; incline Thine ear unto me, and save me.

³ Be Thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort; Thou hast given commandment to save me, for Thou art my rock and my fortress.

⁴ Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

⁵ For Thou art my hope, O Lord God; Thou art my trust from my youth.

⁶ By Thee have I been held from the womb; Thou art He that took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise shall be continually of Thee.

¹⁸ For ye have not come unto the mount which might be touched and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest,

¹⁹ and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which voice those who heard entreated that the Word should not be spoken to them any more.

²⁰ (For they could not endure that which was commanded, that: “if even so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart.”

²¹ And so terrible was the sight that Moses said, “I fear exceedingly and quake.”)

²² But ye have come unto Mount Zion and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

²³ to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are written in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

²⁴ and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

²⁵ See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh, for if they escaped not who refused Him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him that speaketh from Heaven,

²⁶ whose voice then shook the earth. But now He hath promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.”

²⁷ And these words, “yet once more,” signifieth the removing of those things which can be shaken, such as things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

²⁸ Therefore, we receiving a Kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.

²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire.

¹⁰ And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

¹¹ And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years, and was bowed down and could in no way lift herself up.

¹² And when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said unto her, “Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.”

¹³ And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

¹⁴ But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day, and said unto the people, “There are six days in which men ought to work; in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.”

¹⁵ The Lord then answered him and said, “Thou hypocrite! Doth not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall and lead him away to watering?

¹⁶ And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?”

¹⁷ And when He had said these things, all His adversaries were ashamed; and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by Him.