Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

2 And Hannah prayeth, and saith: `My heart hath exulted in Jehovah, My horn hath been high in Jehovah, My mouth hath been large over mine enemies, For I have rejoiced in Thy salvation.

² There is none holy like Jehovah, For there is none save Thee, And there is no rock like our God.

³ Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge [is] Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

⁴ Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

⁵ The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

⁶ Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

⁷ Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

⁸ He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause [them] to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah [are] the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

⁹ The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

¹⁰ Jehovah -- broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.'

¹⁵ And God saith unto Abraham, `Sarai thy wife -- thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [is] her name;

¹⁶ and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations -- kings of peoples are from her.'

¹⁷ And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah -- daughter of ninety years -- bear?'

¹⁸ And Abraham saith unto God, `O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'

¹⁹ and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

²⁰ As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;

²¹ and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'

²² and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.

⁸ But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods,

⁹ and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

¹⁰ days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!

¹¹ I am afraid of you, lest in vain I did labour toward you.

¹² Become as I [am] -- because I also [am] as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

¹³ and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

¹⁴ and my trial that [is] in my flesh ye did not despise nor reject, but as a messenger of God ye did receive me -- as Christ Jesus;

¹⁵ what then was your happiness? for I testify to you, that if possible, your eyes having plucked out, ye would have given to me;

¹⁶ so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

¹⁷ they are zealous for you -- [yet] not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

¹⁸ and [it is] good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;

¹⁹ my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

²⁰ and I was wishing to be present with you now, and to change my voice, because I am in doubt about you.