Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁴ How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.

²⁵ This, the sea, great and broad of sides, There [are] moving things -- innumerable, Living creatures -- small with great.

²⁶ There do ships go: leviathan, That Thou hast formed to play in it.

²⁷ All of them unto Thee do look, To give their food in its season.

²⁸ Thou dost give to them -- they gather, Thou dost open Thy hand -- they [are] satisfied [with] good.

²⁹ Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.

³⁰ Thou sendest out Thy Spirit, they are created, And Thou renewest the face of the ground.

³¹ The honour of Jehovah is to the age, Jehovah rejoiceth in His works,

³² Who is looking to earth, and it trembleth, He cometh against hills, and they smoke.

³³ I sing to Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist.

³⁴ Sweet is my meditation on Him, I -- I do rejoice in Jehovah.

³⁵ Consumed are sinners from the earth, And the wicked are no more. Bless, O my soul, Jehovah. Praise ye Jehovah!

11 And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,

² and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;

³ and they say each one to his neighbour, `Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar.

⁴ And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

⁵ And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

⁶ and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people [is] one, and one pronunciation [is] to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

⁷ Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

⁸ And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

⁹ therefore hath [one] called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.

¹² For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ,

¹³ for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

¹⁴ for also the body is not one member, but many;

¹⁵ if the foot may say, `Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body;

¹⁶ and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?

¹⁷ If the whole body [were] an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?

¹⁸ and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,

¹⁹ and if all were one member, where the body?

²⁰ and now, indeed, [are] many members, and one body;

²¹ and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.'

²² But much more the members of the body which seem to be more infirm are necessary,

²³ and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

²⁴ and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,

²⁵ that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same anxiety for one another,

²⁶ and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with [it] do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with [it] do all the members;

²⁷ and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.