Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Prayer of David.

¹ ¶ Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me, for I am poor and needy.

² Preserve my soul; for I am merciful, O thou my God, save thy slave that trusts in thee.

³ Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for I cry unto thee daily.

⁴ Rejoice the soul of thy slave, for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

⁵ For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all those that call upon thee.

⁶ Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer and attend to the voice of my supplications.

⁷ In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me.

⁸ ¶ Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord, neither is there any other who does thy works.

⁹ All the Gentiles whom thou hast made shall come and humble themselves before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

¹⁰ For thou art great and doest wondrous things; thou alone art God.

⁴³ ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This shall be the ordinance of the passover: No stranger shall eat of it,

⁴⁴ but every man’s slave that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

⁴⁵ The foreigner and the hired servant shall not eat of it.

⁴⁶ It shall be eaten in one house; thou shalt not carry forth any of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.

⁴⁷ All the congregation of Israel shall make this sacrifice.

⁴⁸ And if a stranger shall sojourn with thee and desire to make the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and make this sacrifice; and he shall be as one that is natural in the land, but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

⁴⁹ The same law shall be for the one who is natural, and for the stranger that sojourns among you.

⁵ ¶ For unto the angels he has not subjected the world to come, of which we speak.

⁶ But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou dost visit him?

⁷ Thou didst make him a little lower than the angels; thou didst crown him with glory and honour and didst set him over the works of thy hands.

⁸ Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not see yet that all things are put under him.

⁹ But we see this same Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.