Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴⁶ Then Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.

⁴⁷ “And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.

⁴⁸ “For He has looked on the poor degree of His servant. For behold, from now on all ages shall call me blessed.

⁴⁹ “Because He Who is mighty has done great things for me, and Holy is His Name.

⁵⁰ “And His mercy is from generation to generation on those who fear Him.

⁵¹ “He Who showed strength with His arm, He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

⁵² “He has put down the mighty from their seats and exalted those of low degree.

⁵³ “He has filled the hungry with good things and sent away the rich empty.

⁵⁴ “He has upheld Israel, His servant, to be mindful of His mercy,

⁵⁵ “(as He has spoken to our fathers – that is, to Abraham and his seed) forever.”

⁶ With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before Him with Burnt Offerings, with calves of a year old?

⁷ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

⁸ He has shown you, O man, what is good and what the LORD requires of you: surely to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

⁵ Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You do not desire, but a body have You prepared for Me.

⁶ “In burnt offerings and sin offerings You have had no pleasure.

⁷ “Then I said, ‘Lo, I come. In the beginning of the book it is written of Me, that I should do Your will, O God’.”

⁸ Previously, when He said, “Sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings, and sin offerings, You do not desire, nor had pleasure therein (which are offered by the Law).”

⁹ Then He said, “Lo, I come to do Your will, O God.” He takes away the first, so that He may establish the second.

¹⁰ By which will we are sanctified; by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.