Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

17 Unto the end, for David the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hands of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. [2 Kings 22.]

² I will love thee, O Lord, my strength:

³ The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector and the horn of my salvation, and my support.

⁴ Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.

⁵ The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

⁶ The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.

⁷ In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

¹⁵ And he sent forth his arrows, and he scattered them: he multiplied lightnings, and troubled them.

31 But after that he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying: Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and being enriched by his substance is become great:

² And perceiving also that Laban's countenance was not towards him as yesterday and the other day,

³ Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.

⁴ He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,

⁵ And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.

⁶ And you know that I have served your father to the uttermost of my power.

⁷ Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.

⁸ If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white ones for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.

⁹ And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.

¹⁰ For after that time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.

¹¹ And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am.

¹² And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colours, spotted, and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.

¹³ I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.

¹⁴ And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we any thing left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?

¹⁵ Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

¹⁶ But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.

¹⁷ Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.

¹⁸ And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father to the land of Chanaan.

¹⁹ At that time Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole away her father's idols.

²⁰ And Jacob would not confess to his father in law that he was flying away.

²¹ And when he was gone, together with all that belonged to him, and having passed the river, was going on towards mount Galaad,

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.

⁸ For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

⁹ Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone?

¹⁰ Or if he shall ask him a fish, will he reach him a serpent?

¹¹ If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?