Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

16 Preserve me, O God. For in You do I trust.

² O my soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are my LORD. My goodness is not, but for You.”

³ To the saints who are on the Earth, and to the excellent, all my delight is in them.

⁴ The sorrows of those who offer to another god shall be multiplied. Their offerings of blood I will not offer; nor make mention of their names with my lips.

⁵ The LORD is the portion of my inheritance, and of my cup. You shall maintain my lot.

⁶ The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Indeed, I have a fair heritage.

⁷ I will praise the LORD Who has given me counsel. My core also teaches me in the nights.

⁸ I have set the LORD always before me. For He is at my right hand. Therefore, I shall not slide.

⁹ Therefore, my heart is glad. And my tongue rejoices. My flesh, also, rests in hope.

¹⁰ For You will not leave my soul in the grave. Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

¹¹ You will show me the path of life. In Your presence is the fullness of joy. And at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. The prayer of David.

⁶ “Set me as a seal on your heart, as a signet upon your arm. For love is strong as death. Jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its coals are fiery coals, a vehement flame.

⁷ “Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the rivers drown it. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, they would greatly despise it.”

¹¹ But Mary stood outside the sepulcher, weeping. And as she wept, she stooped down into the sepulcher

¹² and saw two angels in white, sitting - one at the head and the other at the feet - where the body of Jesus had lain.

¹³ And they said to her, “Woman, why do you weep?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.”

¹⁴ When she had said this, she turned back and saw Jesus, standing. And she didn’t know that it was Jesus.

¹⁵ Jesus said to her, “Woman, why do you weep? Whom do you seek?” She, supposing that He was the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if you have taken Him from here, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away.”

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned, and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, “Master”)

¹⁷ Jesus said to her, “Do not touch Me. For I am not yet ascended to My Father. But, go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father, and to your Father, and to My God, and your God’.”

¹⁸ Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.

¹⁹ The evening of the same day (which was the first of the week), when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, “Peace to you.”

²⁰ And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples rejoiced, having seen the Lord.