Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

139 O LORD, You have searched me and known.

² You know my sitting and my rising. You understand my thoughts afar off.

³ You winnow my paths, and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

⁴ For there is not a word on my tongue but that You know it wholly, O LORD.

⁵ You fortify me behind and before and lay Your hand upon me.

⁶ Your knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is so high that I cannot attain to it.

¹³ For You have possessed my core. You have covered me in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴ I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wondrously made. Marvelous are Your works; and my soul knows it well!

¹⁵ My bones are not hidden from You; though I was made in secret, fashioned beneath, in the Earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw me when I was without form; for in Your Book were all things written, days fashioned at a time when there were still none of them.

¹⁷ How dear, therefore, are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

¹⁸ If I should count them, they are more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.

2 And Hannah prayed, and said, “My heart rejoices in the LORD. My horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies because I rejoice in Your salvation.

² “There is none as Holy as the LORD. Yea, there is none besides You; and there is no god like our God.

³ “No longer speak so exceedingly proudly. Do let not arrogancy come out of your mouth. For the LORD is a God of knowledge; and by Him enterprises are established.

⁴ “The bow and the mighty men are broken; and the weak have girded themselves with strength.

⁵ “Those who were full are now hired for bread, yet the hungry are no more. Even the barren has borne seven; and she who had many children is now feeble.

⁶ “The LORD kills and makes alive, brings down to the grave and raises up.

⁷ “The LORD makes poor and makes rich, brings low and exalts.

⁸ “He raises up the poor from the dust and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill, to set among princes and to make them inherit the seat of glory. For the pillars of the Earth are the LORD’s, and he has set the world upon them.

⁹ “He will keep the feet of His saints; and the wicked shall keep silence in darkness. For in might shall no man be strong.

¹⁰ “The LORD’s adversaries shall be destroyed, and out of Heaven shall He thunder upon them. The LORD shall judge the ends of the world, and shall give power to His King, and exalt the horn of His Anointed.”

¹⁹ “Did not Moses give you a Law, and yet none of you keeps the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”

²⁰ The people answered, and said, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill You?”

²¹ Jesus answered, and said to them, “I have done one work, and you all marvel.

²² “Therefore, Moses gave circumcision to you - not because it is of Moses, but of the Fathers - and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

²³ If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with Me because I have made a man entirely whole on the Sabbath?

²⁴ “Do not judge according to the appearance. But, judge righteous judgment.”