Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

112 Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly.

² Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.

³ Wealth and riches [are] in his house, And his righteousness is standing for ever.

⁴ Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.

⁵ Good [is] the man -- gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.

⁶ For -- to the age he is not moved; For a memorial age-during is the righteous.

⁷ Of an evil report he is not afraid, Prepared is His heart, confident in Jehovah.

⁸ Sustained is his heart -- he feareth not, Till that he look on his adversaries.

⁹ He hath scattered -- hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.

¹⁰ The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!

4 `And now, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving to you.

² Ye do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of Jehovah your God which I am commanding you.

³ `Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;

⁴ and ye who are cleaving to Jehovah your God, [are] alive, all of you, to-day.

⁵ `See, I have taught you statutes and judgments, as Jehovah my God hath commanded me -- to do so, in the midst of the land whither ye are going in to possess it;

⁶ and ye have kept and done [them] (for it [is] your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding [is] this great nation.

⁷ `For which [is] the great nation that hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God, in all we have called unto him?

⁸ and which [is] the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

⁹ `Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.

¹⁰ `The day when thou hast stood before Jehovah thy God in Horeb -- in Jehovah's saying unto me, Assemble to Me the people, and I cause them to hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and their sons they teach; --

¹¹ and ye draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire unto the heart of the heavens -- darkness, cloud, yea, thick darkness:

¹² `And Jehovah speaketh unto you out of the midst of the fire; a voice of words ye are hearing and a similitude ye are not seeing, only a voice;

¹³ and He declareth to you His covenant, which He hath commanded you to do, the Ten Matters, and He writeth them upon two tables of stone.

¹⁴ `And me hath Jehovah commanded at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, for your doing them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it;

5 Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

² in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

³ for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

⁴ because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world -- our faith;

⁵ who is he who is overcoming the world, if not he who is believing that Jesus is the Son of God?