Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹¹ Teach me thy way, Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

¹² I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart; and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

¹³ For great is thy loving-kindness toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

¹⁴ O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assembly of the violent seek after my soul, and they have not set thee before them.

¹⁵ But thou, Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth.

¹⁶ Turn toward me, and be gracious unto me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

¹⁷ Shew me a token for good, that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed; for thou, Jehovah, hast helped me and comforted me.

16 And Sarai Abram's wife did not bear him [children]. And she had an Egyptian maidservant; and her name was Hagar.

² And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah has shut me up, that I do not bear. Go in, I pray thee, to my maidservant: it may be that I shall be built up by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

³ And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maidservant, at the end of ten years that Abram had dwelt in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram, as his wife.

⁴ And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lightly esteemed in her eyes.

⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be on thee! I have given my maidservant into thy bosom; and now she sees that she has conceived, I am lightly esteemed in her eyes. Jehovah judge between me and thee!

⁶ And Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maidservant is in thy hand: do to her what is good in thine eyes. And Sarai oppressed her; and she fled from her face.

⁷ And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, whence comest thou? and whither art thou going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.

⁹ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

¹⁰ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

¹¹ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath hearkened to thy affliction.

¹² And he will be a wild-ass of a man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell before the face of all his brethren.

¹³ And she called the name of Jehovah who spoke to her, Thou art the God who reveals himself, for she said, Also here have I seen after he has revealed himself.

¹⁴ Therefore the well was named Beer-lahai-roi: behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁵ And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

2 To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lamps:

² I know thy works and [thy] labour, and thine endurance, and that thou canst not bear evil [men]; and thou hast tried them who say that themselves [are] apostles and are not, and hast found them liars;

³ and endurest, and hast borne for my name's sake, and hast not wearied:

⁴ but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

⁵ Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works: but if not, I am coming to thee, and I will remove thy lamp out of its place, except thou shalt repent.

⁶ But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nicolaitanes, which *I* also hate.

⁷ He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him that overcomes, I will give to him to eat of the tree of life which is in the paradise of God.