Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

143 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.

² My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.

³ Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

⁴ Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

⁵ Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.

⁶ Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

⁷ Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:

⁸ Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

⁹ To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.

¹⁰ Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:

¹¹ Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:

¹² Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

¹³ Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:

¹⁴ Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.

¹⁵ They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

¹⁸ And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his father to the reapers,

¹⁹ He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said to his servant: Take him, and carry him to his mother.

²⁰ And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she set him on her knees until noon, and then he died.

²¹ And she went up and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and going out,

²² She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee, one of thy servants, and an ass that I may run to the man of God, and come again.

²³ And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.

²⁴ And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no stay in going. And do that which I bid thee.

²⁵ So she went forward, and came to the man of God to mount Carmel: and when the man of God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi his servant: Behold that Sunamitess.

²⁶ Go therefore to meet her, and say to her: Is all well with thee, and with thy husband, and with thy son? and she answered: Well.

²⁷ And when she came to the man of God to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

²⁸ And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my lord? did I not say to thee: Do not deceive me?

²⁹ Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man salute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

³⁰ But the mother of the child said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. He arose, therefore, and followed her.

³¹ But Giezi was gone before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child, and there was no voice nor sense: and he returned to meet him, and told him, saying: The child is not risen.

³² Eliseus therefore went into the house, and behold the child lay dead on his bed.

³³ And going in he shut the door upon him, and upon the child, and prayed to the Lord.

³⁴ And he went up, and lay upon the child: and he put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he bowed himself upon him, and the child's flesh grew warm.

³⁵ Then he returned and walked in the house, once to and fro: and he went up, and lay upon him: and the child gaped seven times, and opened his eyes.

³⁶ And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call this Sunamitess. And she being called, went in to him: and he said: Take up thy son.

³⁷ She came and fell at his feet, and worshipped upon the ground: and took up her son, and went out.

2 And you, when you were dead in your offences, and sins,

² Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief:

³ In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

⁴ But God, (who is rich in mercy,) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us,

⁵ Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ, (by whose grace you are saved,)

⁶ And hath raised us up together, and hath made us sit together in the heavenly places, through Christ Jesus.

⁷ That he might shew in the ages to come the abundant riches of his grace, in his bounty towards us in Christ Jesus.

⁸ For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God;

⁹ Not of works, that no man may glory.

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus in good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.