Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

17 Hear the right, O Lord; attend unto my cry! Give ear unto my prayer, which goeth not out of feigned lips.

² Let my sentence come forth from Thy presence; let Thine eyes behold things with equity.

³ Thou hast tested mine heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

⁴ Concerning the works of men, by the word of Thy lips I have been kept from the paths of the destroyer.

⁵ Uphold my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

⁶ I have called upon Thee, for Thou wilt hear me, O God; incline Thine ear unto me and hear my speaking.

⁷ Show Thy marvelous lovingkindness, O Thou that savest by Thy right hand them that put their trust in Thee from those that rise up against them.

¹⁵ As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy likeness.

⁸ “But thou, Israel, art My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham My friend.

⁹ Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, ‘Thou art My servant; I have chosen thee and not cast thee away’—

¹⁰ fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness.

⁶ It is not as though the Word of God hath taken no effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel;

⁷ neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children; but, “In Isaac shall thy seed be called.”

⁸ That is, they who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; rather, the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

⁹ For this is the word of promise: “At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.”

¹⁰ And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac

¹¹ (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not by works, but by Him that calleth),

¹² it was said unto her, “The elder shall serve the younger.”

¹³ As it is written: “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”