Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁰ Hear, O daughter, and consider and incline your ear. Also, forget your own people and your father’s house.

¹¹ So shall the King have pleasure in your beauty; for He is your LORD. And reverence Him.

¹² And the daughter of Tyre, with the rich of the people, shall do homage before your face with presents.

¹³ The King’s daughter is all glorious within. Her clothing is of embroidered gold.

¹⁴ She shall be brought to the King in clothing of needlework. The virgins who follow after her (her companions) shall be brought to You.

¹⁵ With joy and gladness they shall be brought and shall enter into the King’s palace.

¹⁶ Your children shall be in place of your fathers. You shall make them princes through all the Earth.

¹⁷ I will make Your Name remembered through all generations. Therefore, the people shall give thanks to You. World without end. To him who excels upon Alamoth: a song committed to the sons of Korah.

¹⁸ And when he came to his father, he said, “My father.” Who answered, “I am here. Who are you, my son?”

¹⁹ And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you bid me. Please rise. Sit up and eat my food, so that your soul may bless me.”

²⁰ Then Isaac said to his son, “How have you found it so quickly, my son?” Who said, “Because the LORD your God brought it to my hand.”

²¹ Again, Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near now, so that I may feel you, my son, whether you are my son, Esau, or not.”

²² Then Jacob came near to Isaac, his father. And he felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

²³ (For he did not know him because his hands were rough, as his brother Esau’s hands. Therefore, he blessed him.)

²⁴ Again he said, “Are you my son, Esau?” Who answered, “Yes.”

²⁵ Then he said, “Bring it here to me and I will eat of my son’s food, so that my soul may bless you.” And he brought it to him; and he ate. Also, he brought him wine; and he drank.

²⁶ Afterward, his father Isaac said to him, “Come near now and kiss me, my son.”

²⁷ And he came near and kissed him. Then he smelled the savor of his garments and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed.

²⁸ “Therefore, God give you of the dew of Heaven, and the fatness of the Earth, and plenty of wheat and wine.

²⁹ “Let people be your servants and nations bow down to you. Be Lord over your brothers and let your mother’s children honor you. Cursed be he who curses you; and blessed be he who blesses you.”

²¹ That same hour, Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit, and said, “I confess to You, Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because it so pleased You.

²² “All things are given to Me by My Father. And no one knows Who the Son is, except the Father; nor Who the Father is, except the Son and him to whom the Son wishes to reveal Him.”

²³ And He turned to His disciples, and said secretly, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.

²⁴ “For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which you see and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.”