Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

126 A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back [to] the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers.

² Then filled [with] laughter is our mouth, And our tongue [with] singing, Then do they say among nations, `Jehovah did great things with these.'

³ Jehovah did great things with us, We have been joyful.

⁴ Turn again, O Jehovah, [to] our captivity, As streams in the south.

⁵ Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap,

⁶ Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!

⁷ And these [are] the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, a hundred and seventy and five years;

⁸ and Abraham expireth, and dieth in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered unto his people.

⁹ And Isaac and Ishmael his sons bury him at the cave of Machpelah, at the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre --

¹⁰ the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth -- there hath Abraham been buried, and Sarah his wife.

¹¹ And it cometh to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blesseth Isaac his son; and Isaac dwelleth by the Well of the Living One, my Beholder.

¹³ And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

¹⁴ to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹⁵ so, then, brethren, stand ye fast, and hold the deliverances that ye were taught, whether through word, whether through our letter;

¹⁶ and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

¹⁷ comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

3 As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you,

² and that we may be delivered from the unreasonable and evil men, for the faith [is] not of all;

³ and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard [you] from the evil;

⁴ and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;

⁵ and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.