Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Song of degrees.

¹ ¶ Blessed is every one that fears the LORD, that walks in his ways.

² When thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

³ Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thy house; thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

⁴ Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that fears the LORD.

⁵ The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion, and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

⁶ Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children and peace upon Israel.

²² Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I do not do this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the Gentiles, where ye went.

²³ And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the Gentiles, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the Gentiles shall know that I am the LORD, said the Lord GOD when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

²⁴ And I will take you from among the Gentiles and gather you out of all countries and will bring you into your own land.

²⁵ ¶ And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

²⁶ And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

²⁷ And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my commandments, and ye shall keep my rights, and do them.

²⁸ And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

²⁹ I will also keep you from all your uncleanness: and I will call to the wheat and will multiply it and lay no famine upon you.

³⁰ I will multiply likewise the fruit of the trees, and the fruit of the fields, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the Gentiles.

³¹ Then ye shall remember your own evil ways and your doings that were not good and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

³² Not for your sakes do I do this, said the Lord GOD, be it known unto you; be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.

⁵³ And each one went unto his own house.

8 ¶ Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.

² And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down and taught them.

³ Then the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery, and when they had set her in the midst,

⁴ they said unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery in the very act.

⁵ Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned, but what sayest thou?

⁶ This they said, tempting him, that they might be able to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground.

⁷ So when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him be the first to cast a stone at her.

⁸ And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

⁹ And those who heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest even unto the last; and Jesus was left alone and the woman that had been in the midst.

¹⁰ Jesus, lifting himself up and seeing no one but the woman, said unto her, Woman, where are thine accusers? Has no one condemned thee?

¹¹ And she said, No one, Lord. Then Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more.