Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
75 We will praise You, O God! We will praise You, for Your Name is near! They will declare Your wondrous works.
2 “When I shall take a convenient time, I will judge righteously.
3 “The Earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved; but I will establish the pillars of it. Selah.
4 “I said to the foolish, ‘Do not be so foolish,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn.
5 “‘Do not lift up your horn on High, nor speak with a stiff neck.’”
6 For exaltation is neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 But God is the judge. He makes low and He makes high.
8 For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, and the wine is foaming. It is fully mixed, and He pours out of the same. Surely, all the wicked of the Earth shall drain and drink the dregs thereof.
9 But I will declare forever and sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 Also, all the horns of the wicked I will break. But the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. To him who excels on Neginoth: a Psalm, or song, committed to Asaph
12 “His breath makes the coals burn, for a flame goes out of his mouth.
13 “In his neck remains strength, and labor is rejected before his face.
14 “The members of his body are joined. They are strong in themselves and cannot be moved.
15 “His heart is as strong as a stone, and as hard as the lower millstone.
16 “The mighty are afraid of his majesty. They faint in themselves for fear.
17 “When the sword touches him, he will not rise up. Nor for the spear, dart or javelin.
18 “He esteems iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
19 “The archer cannot make him flee. The stones of the sling are turned into stubble to him.
20 “The darts are counted as straw, and he laughs at the shaking of the spear.
21 “Sharp stones are under him, and he spreads sharp things upon the mire.
22 “He makes the depth boil like a pot, and makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
23 “He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.
24 “There is no one like him on the Earth. He is made without fear.
25 “He beholds all high things. He is a king over all the children of pride.”
13 Now, before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come (that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world) He loved them to the end.
2 And when supper was done (and the devil had now put in the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him),
3 Jesus - knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and went to God -
4 He rose from supper and laid aside His garments and took a towel and wrapped Himself.
5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel in which He was wrapped.
6 Then He came to Simon Peter, who said to Him, “Lord, You wash my feet?”
7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I do, you do not know now. But you shall know it hereafter.”
8 Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you shall have no part with Me.”
9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also the hands and the head.”
10 Jesus said to him, “He who is washed needs only to wash his feet, but is wholly clean. And you are clean, but not all.”
11 For He knew who would betray Him. Therefore, He said, “You are not all clean.”
12 So, after He had washed their feet and had taken His garments and had sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?
13 “You call Me Master, and Lord. And you say well. For so I am.
14 “If I, then, your Lord and Master, has washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
15 “For I have given you an example, so that you should do just as I have done to you.
16 “Truly, truly I say to you, the servant is not greater than his master, nor the messenger greater than the one who sent him.
17 “If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
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