Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

17 (Tefillah of Dovid) Hear the tzedek (righteous plea of a just cause), Hashem, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my tefillah, that goeth not out of lips of mirmah (deceit).

² Let my mishpat (right) come forth from Thy presence; let Thine eyes behold the things that are right.

³ Thou hast probed mine lev; Thou hast visited me in the lailah; Thou hast tested me and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

⁴ Concerning the works of men, by the Devar of Thy lips I have kept myself from the paths of the cruel.

⁵ Uphold my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps stumble not.

⁶ I have called upon Thee, for Thou wilt hear me, O El; incline Thine ear unto me, and hear my prayer.

⁷ Show Thy marvellous chesed, O Thou Moshi’a Who saves by Thy right hand them which put their trust in Thee from those that rise up against them.

¹⁵ As for me, in tzedek I will behold Thy face; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy temunah (form; see Num 12:8).

31 And he heard the divrei Bnei Lavan, saying, Ya’akov hath taken away all that belonged to avinu; and of that which belonged to avinu hath he gotten all this kavod.

² And Ya’akov beheld the countenance of Lavan, and, hinei, it was not toward him as before.

³ And Hashem said unto Ya’akov, Shuv el Eretz Avoteicha! And to thy moledet; and I will be with thee.

⁴ And Ya’akov sent and called Rachel and Leah to the sadeh unto his tzon,

⁵ And said unto them, I see penei avichen, that it is not toward me as before; but Elohei Avi is with me.

⁶ And ye know that with all my koach I have served avichen.

⁷ And avichen hath deceived me, and changed my sachar aseret monim but Elohim allowed him not to harm me.

⁸ If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy sachar; then all the tzon bore speckled; and if he said thus, The streaked shall be thy sachar; then bore all the tzon streaked.

⁹ Thus Elohim hath taken away the mikneh of your av, and given them to me.

¹⁰ And it came to pass at the time that the tzon breed, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a chalom, and, hinei, the male goats mounting the tzon were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

¹¹ And the Malach HaElohim spoke unto me in a chalom saying, Ya’akov: And I said, Hineni.

¹² And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the male goats leaping upon the tzon are streaked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Lavan doeth unto thee.

¹³ I am HaEl Beit-El, where thou anointedst a matzevah (pillar), and where thou vowedst a neder (vow) unto Me: now arise, get thee out from HaAretz Hazot, and return unto thy eretz moledet.

¹⁴ And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any chelek or nachalah for us in bais avinu?

¹⁵ Are we not regarded by him nokhriyyot (foreigners, strangers)? For he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our kesef.

¹⁶ For all the oisher Elohim hath taken from avinu, that belongs to us and baneinu; so then, whatsoever Elohim hath said unto thee, do.

¹⁷ Then Ya’akov rose up, and set his banim and his nashim upon the gemalim;

¹⁸ And he drove all his mikneh, and all his goods which he had gotten, the mikneh of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan Aram, for to go to Yitzchak aviv in Eretz Kena’an.

¹⁹ And Lavan went to shear his tzon; and Rachel had stolen the terafim that belong to her av.

²⁰ Unawares to Lavan HaArami, Ya’akov stole away, in that he told him not that he was fleeing.

²¹ So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the Nahar [i.e. the Euphrates], and set his face toward Har Gil’ad.

⁷ Keep asking and it shall be given to you; keep searching and you shall find; keep knocking and the delet shall be opened to you.

⁸ For everyone asking receives, and the one searching finds, and to the one knocking the delet will be opened.

⁹ Or what man is there among you the ben of whom will ask for lechem (bread), and he will give him a stone.

¹⁰ Or if he asks for a dag (fish), will give him a nachash (snake)?

¹¹ Therefore, if you, being ra’im (evil ones), know to give matanot tovot (good gifts) to your yeladim, how much more does your Av shbaShomayim give hatov (the good) to the ones asking Him.