Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

139 Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].

² *Thou* knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;

³ Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;

⁴ For there is not yet a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

⁵ Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.

⁶ O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.

⁷ Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither flee from thy presence?

⁸ If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou [art there];

⁹ [If] I take the wings of the dawn [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

¹⁰ Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

¹¹ And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night;

¹² Even darkness hideth not from thee, and the night shineth as the day: the darkness is as the light.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;

²⁴ And see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.

44 And now hear, Jacob, my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen:

² thus saith Jehovah, that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, who helpeth thee, Fear not, Jacob, my servant, and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

³ For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.

⁴ And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water-courses.

⁵ One shall say, I am Jehovah's; and another shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand: [I am] Jehovah's, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.

2 For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things [we have] heard, lest in any way we should slip away.

² For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,

³ how shall *we* escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken [of] by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;

⁴ God bearing, besides, witness with [them] to [it], both by signs and wonders, and various acts of power, and distributions of [the] Holy Spirit, according to his will?

⁵ For he has not subjected to angels the habitable world which is to come, of which we speak;

⁶ but one has testified somewhere, saying, What is man, that thou rememberest him, or son of man that thou visitest him?

⁷ Thou hast made him some little inferior to the angels; thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, [and hast set him over the works of thy hands;]

⁸ thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to him, he has left nothing unsubject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to *him*,

⁹ but we see Jesus, who [was] made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.