Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

86 For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:

² The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

³ Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

⁴ I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

⁵ Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

⁶ The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

⁷ The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

⁴³ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the Phase: No foreigner shall eat of it.

⁴⁴ But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.

⁴⁵ The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.

⁴⁶ In one house shall it be eaten, neither shall you carry forth of the flesh thereof out of the house, neither shall you break a bone thereof.

⁴⁷ All the assembly of the children of Israel shall keep it.

⁴⁸ And if any stranger be willing to dwell among you, and to keep the Phase of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised, and then shall he celebrate it according to the manner: and he shall be as he that is born in the land: but if any man be uncircumcised, he shall not eat thereof.

⁴⁹ The same law shall be to him that is born in the land, and to the proselyte that sojourneth with you.

⁵ For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak.

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

⁷ Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and honour, and hast set him over the works of thy hands:

⁸ Thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in that he hath subjected all things to him, he left nothing not subject to him. But now we see not as yet all things subject to him.

⁹ But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God, he might taste death for all.