Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

114 I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.

² Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him.

³ The sorrows of death have encompassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

⁴ And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.

⁵ The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.

⁶ The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was little and he delivered me.

⁷ Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee.

⁸ For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.

⁹ I will please the Lord in the land of the living.

1 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonas the son of Amathi, saying:

² Arise, and go to Ninive the great city, and preach in it: for the wickedness thereof is come up before me.

³ And Jonas rose up to flee into Tharsis from the face of the Lord, and he went down to Joppe, and found a ship going to Tharsis: and he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tharsis from the face of the Lord.

⁴ But the Lord sent a great wind into the sea: and a great tempest was raised in the sea, and the ship was in danger to be broken.

⁵ And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried to their god: and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship, into the sea, to lighten it of them: and Jonas went down into the inner part of the ship, and fell into a deep sleep.

⁶ And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him: Why art thou fast asleep? rise up, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think of us, that we may not perish.

⁷ And they said every one to his fellow: Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know why this evil is upon us. And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas.

⁸ And they said to him: Tell us for what cause this evil is upon us, what is thy business? of what country art thou? and whither goest thou? or of what people art thou?

⁹ And he said to them: I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord the God of heaven, who made both the sea and the dry land.

¹⁰ And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him: Why hast thou done this? (for the men knew that he fled from the face of the Lord: because he had told them.)

¹¹ And they said to him: What shall we do to thee, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea flowed and swelled.

¹² And he said to them: Take me up, and cast me into the sea, and the sea shall be calm to you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

¹³ And the men rowed hard to return to land, but they were not able: because the sea tossed and swelled upon them.

¹⁴ And they cried to the Lord, and said: We beseech thee, O Lord, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased thee.

¹⁵ And they took Jonas, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from raging.

¹⁶ And the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and sacrificed victims to the Lord, and made vows.

¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

²⁰ But now Christ is risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep:

²¹ For by a man came death, and by a man the resurrection of the dead.

²² And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.

²³ But every one in his own order: the firstfruits Christ, then they that are of Christ, who have believed in his coming.

²⁴ Afterwards the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God and the Father, when he shall have brought to nought all principality, and power, and virtue.

²⁵ For he must reign, until he hath put all his enemies under his feet.

²⁶ And the enemy death shall be destroyed last: For he hath put all things under his feet. And whereas he saith,

²⁷ All things are put under him; undoubtedly, he is excepted, who put all things under him.

²⁸ And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then the Son also himself shall be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.