Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹² O the happiness of the nation whose God [is] Jehovah, Of the people He did choose, For an inheritance to Him.

¹³ From the heavens hath Jehovah looked, He hath seen all the sons of men.

¹⁴ From the fixed place of His dwelling, He looked unto all inhabitants of the earth;

¹⁵ Who is forming their hearts together, Who is attending unto all their works.

¹⁶ The king is not saved by the multitude of a force. A mighty man is not delivered, By abundance of power.

¹⁷ A false thing [is] the horse for safety, And by the abundance of his strength He doth not deliver.

¹⁸ Lo, the eye of Jehovah [is] to those fearing Him, To those waiting for His kindness,

¹⁹ To deliver from death their soul, And to keep them alive in famine.

²⁰ Our soul hath waited for Jehovah, Our help and our shield [is] He,

²¹ For in Him doth our heart rejoice, For in His holy name we have trusted.

²² Let Thy kindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, As we have waited for Thee!

⁴ These [are] births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

⁵ and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouteth, for Jehovah God hath not rained upon the earth, and a man there is not to serve the ground,

⁶ and a mist goeth up from the earth, and hath watered the whole face of the ground.

⁷ And Jehovah God formeth the man -- dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

⁴² So also [is] the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

⁴³ it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

⁴⁴ it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

⁴⁵ so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam [is] for a life-giving spirit,

⁴⁶ but that which is spiritual [is] not first, but that which [was] natural, afterwards that which [is] spiritual.

⁴⁷ The first man [is] out of the earth, earthy; the second man [is] the Lord out of heaven;

⁴⁸ as [is] the earthy, such [are] also the earthy; and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] also the heavenly;

⁴⁹ and, according as we did bear the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.