Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹² The rasha plotteth against the tzaddik, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

¹³ Adonoi shall laugh at him, for He seeth that his yom is coming.

¹⁴ The resha’im have drawn out the cherev, and have bent their keshet, to cast down the oni (poor) and evyon (needy), and to slay such as be yishrei derech (upright ones on the road, that walk uprightly).

¹⁵ Their cherev shall enter into their own lev, and their keshatot (bows) shall be broken.

¹⁶ A little that a tzaddik hath is better than the riches of resha’im rabbim.

¹⁷ For the zero’ot (arms, powers) of the resha’im shall be broken; but Hashem upholdeth the tzaddikim.

¹⁸ Hashem knoweth the yamim of the temimim (blameless ones); and their nachalah (inheritance) shall be l’olahm (forever).

¹⁹ They shall not be put to shame in time of evil; and in the days of famine yisba’u (they shall be satisfied, enjoy plenty).

²⁰ But the resha’im shall perish, and the oyvei Hashem (enemies of Hashem) shall be like the glory of the meadows; they shall disappear like ashan (smoke), they shall vanish.

²¹ The rasha borroweth, and repayeth not; but the tzaddik showeth chonen (generosity), and giveth.

²² For such as be blessed of Him shall inherit Eretz; and they that be cursed of Him shall be cut off.

²² So the malach went, and came and told Dovid all that Yoav had sent him for.

²³ And the malach said unto Dovid, Surely the anashim prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the sadeh, and we were upon them even unto the petach hasha’ar.

²⁴ And the archers shot from off the chomah upon thy avadim; and some of the avadim of HaMelech are dead, and thy eved Uriyah the Chitti is dead also.

²⁵ Then Dovid said unto the malach, Thus shalt thou say unto Yoav, Let not this thing be evil in thy sight, for the cherev devoureth one as well as another; make thy milchamah more chazak (strong) against the Ir, and overthrow it; and give him [Yoav] a chazak encouragement.

²⁶ And when the eshet Uriyah heard that Uriyah her ish was dead, she mourned for her ba’al (husband).

²⁷ And when the evel (mourning) was past, Dovid sent and brought her to his bais, and she became his isha, and bore him ben. But the thing that Dovid had done was evil in the sight of Hashem.

²² For this reason I have also regularly been prevented from coming to you.

²³ But now, als (since) I no longer have scope in these regions and have had a tshuka (longing) to come to you for many years,

²⁴ When I travel to Spain...For I hope to see you as I pass through and to be sent on my way there by you, once I have had the full pleasure of being with you for a time.

²⁵ But now I am traveling to Yerushalayim in avodas kodesh service to the Kadoshim (Messianic Jews in Jerusalem).

²⁶ For the kehillot of Moshiach (Messianic congregations) in Macedonia and Achaia (Greece) chose to make some tzedakah (contribution) for the aniyim (poor) among the Kadoshim in Yerushalayim.

²⁷ For they chose to do so and owe them a choiv (debt), for if the non-Jews have received a share in their spiritual affairs, they ought to minister to the Messianic Jews in material affairs.

²⁸ When, therefore, I have completed this (collection journey avodas kodesh service) and sealed this p’ri (fruit) to them, I will go by way of you to Spain.

²⁹ And I have da’as that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the Birkat HaMoshiach.

³⁰ I appeal to you, Achim b’Moshiach, through Adoneinu Moshiach Yehoshua and the ahavas HaRuach Hakodesh, to contend with me in your tefillos to Hashem on my behalf,

³¹ that I might be delivered from those without mishma’at in Yehudah and my avodas kodesh service to Yerushalayim might be acceptable to the Kadoshim

³² That I might come to you in simcha (joy) birtzon Hashem (in the will of G-d) and be mutually refreshed by your hitkhabrut (fellowship) in the Messianic Chavurah.

³³ V’Elohei HaShalom im kulechem. Omein. (May the G-d of peace be with you all. Amen.)