Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
8 You still the roaring of the seas,(A)
the roaring of their waves,
the tumult of the peoples.(B)
9 Distant peoples stand in awe of your marvels;
the places of morning and evening you make resound with joy.
10 [a]You visit the earth and water it,
make it abundantly fertile.(C)
God’s stream[b] is filled with water;
you supply their grain.
Thus do you prepare it:
11 you drench its plowed furrows,
and level its ridges.
With showers you keep it soft,
blessing its young sprouts.
12 You adorn the year with your bounty;
your paths[c] drip with fruitful rain.
13 The meadows of the wilderness also drip;
the hills are robed with joy.
37 Jacob, however, got some fresh shoots of poplar, almond and plane[a] trees, and he peeled white stripes in them by laying bare the white core of the shoots. 38 The shoots that he had peeled he then set upright in the watering troughs where the animals came to drink, so that they would be in front of them. When the animals were in heat as they came to drink, 39 the goats mated by the shoots, and so they gave birth to streaked, speckled and spotted young. 40 The sheep, on the other hand, Jacob kept apart, and he made these animals face the streaked or completely dark animals of Laban. Thus he produced flocks of his own, which he did not put with Laban’s flock. 41 Whenever the hardier animals were in heat, Jacob would set the shoots in the troughs in full view of these animals, so that they mated by the shoots; 42 but with the weaker animals he would not put the shoots there. So the feeble animals would go to Laban, but the hardy ones to Jacob. 43 So the man grew exceedingly prosperous, and he owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.
Battle Against Evil. 10 [a]Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power. 11 Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil.(A) 12 For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.(B) 13 Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground.(C) 14 So stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate,(D) 15 and your feet shod in readiness for the gospel of peace.(E) 16 In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all [the] flaming arrows of the evil one.(F) 17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.(G)
Constant Prayer. 18 With all prayer and supplication, pray at every opportunity in the Spirit. To that end, be watchful with all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones(H)
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