Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

146 Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise.

² The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel.

³ Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.

⁴ Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names.

⁵ Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.

⁶ The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even to the ground.

⁷ Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp.

⁸ Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the service of men.

⁹ Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

¹⁰ He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take pleasure in the legs of a man.

¹¹ The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy.

¹⁴ I have always held my peace, I have I kept silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow up at once.

¹⁵ I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up the standing pools.

¹⁶ And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them.

¹⁷ They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.

¹⁸ Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see.

¹⁹ Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord?

²⁰ Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them? thou that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear?

²¹ And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it.

⁹ Therefore we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you, and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom, and spiritual understanding:

¹⁰ That you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing; being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God:

¹¹ Strengthened with all might, according to the power of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy,

¹² Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:

¹³ Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

¹⁴ In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins;