Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

119 In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.

² O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.

³ What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue?

⁴ The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.

⁵ Woe is me, that my sojourning is prolonged! I have dwelt with the inhabitants of cedar:

⁶ My soul hath been long a sojourner.

⁷ With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.

30 Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing or the curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched with repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which the Lord thy God shall have scattered thee,

² And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:

³ The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before.

⁴ If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God will fetch thee back from thence,

⁵ And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he will make thee more numerous than were thy fathers.

⁶ The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that then mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live.

⁷ And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them that hate and persecute thee.

⁸ But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and shalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day:

⁹ And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of thy hands, in the fruit of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in the fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things. For the Lord will return to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in thy fathers:

15 Then came to him from Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, saying:

² Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

³ But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition? For God said:

⁴ Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death.

⁵ But you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, The gift whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee.

⁶ And he shall not honour his father or his mother: and you have made void the commandment of God for your tradition.

⁷ Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying:

⁸ This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.

⁹ And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.