Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

4 (For the one directing. With stringed instruments. Mizmor Dovid.) Hear me when I call, Elohei tzidki (O G-d of my righteousness); Thou hast relieved me when I was in distress; channeini, and hear my tefillah.

² O ye Bnei Ish, how long will ye turn my kavod into shame? How long will ye love delusion, and seek kazav (lie, falsehood)? Selah.

³ But know that Hashem hath set apart the chasid for Himself; Hashem will hear when I call unto Him.

⁴ Be angry, yet sin not; commune with your own levav upon your mishkav, and be still. Selah.

⁵ Offer the zivkhei-tzedek, and put your trust in Hashem.

⁶ There be many that say, Who will show us any tov? Hashem, lift Thou up the ohr of Thy countenance upon us.

⁷ Thou hast put simcha in my lev, more than in the time that their dagan and their tirosh increased.

⁸ In shalom I will both lay me down, and sleep, for Thou alone, Hashem, makest me dwell in safety.

3 Now Kefa and Yochanan were going up to the Beis Hamikdash at the hour of tefillah, the ninth hour (three o’clock in the afternoon). [TEHILLIM 55:17]

² And a certain ish, an ish (pisei’ach from the womb of his em), was being carried and they were putting him bederech klal (usually) yom yom at the sha’ar of the Beis Hamikdash, the one being called the Sha’ar Hatiferet, in order to beg for tzedakah from the ones entering into the Beis Hamikdash.

³ When the ish pisei’ach (lame man) saw Kefa and Yochanan being about to enter into the Beis Hamikdash, he began begging them for tzedakah.

⁴ But Kefa, as did Yochanan, gazed at him, saying, "Look at us!"

⁵ And the ish pisei’ach was paying heed to them, expecting to receive something from them.

⁶ And Kefa said, "Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I give to you. In ha-Shem of the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua of Natzeret, get up and walk!"

⁷ And having grasped him by the yad yamin, Kefa lifted him up, and immediately the man’s feet and ankles were strengthened.

⁸ And leaping up, he stood and was walking around, and he entered with them into the Beis Hamikdash, walking and leaping and shouting "Baruch Hashem!" [YESHAYAH 35:6]

⁹ And all the people saw him walking and shouting, "Baruch Hashem!"

¹⁰ And they recognized him, that he was the one sitting at the Sha’ar Hatiferet (Beautiful Gate) of the Beis Hamikdash begging for tzedakah; and they were mishpoyel (standing in awe) and amazement at what had happened to him.

²⁴ And there came about also a dispute among them, as to which of them seemed to be the Gadol.

²⁵ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, The melachim (kings) of the Goyim domineer them and the ones having shlita (control) over the Goyim are called benefactors.

²⁶ But with you it is not so, but he of the Gedolim among you, let him be as the youngest, and he of the Manhigim, as the one serving.

²⁷ For who is HaGadol? The one reclining at tish or the one serving? Is it not the one reclining at tish? But I am in your midst as one serving.

²⁸ But you are the ones having remained with me in my nisyonos (temptations).

²⁹ And I assign shlita (authority) to you, just as Avi assigned shlita to me; a Malchut (Kingdom),

³⁰ That you may eat and drink at my tish in my Malchut, and you will sit upon kissot (thrones) judging the Shneym Asar Shivtei Yisroel (Twelve Tribes of Yisroel).