Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

17 Hear what is right, O LORD. Consider my cry. Hear my prayer of unfeigned lips.

² Let my sentence come forth from Your presence. And let Your eyes behold equity.

³ You have tested and visited my heart in the night. You have tried me and found nothing. For I have purposed that my mouth should not offend.

⁴ Concerning the works of men, by the words of Your lips I kept myself from the paths of the cruel man.

⁵ Keep my steps in Your paths, so that my feet do not slide.

⁶ I have called upon You. Surely You will hear me, O God. Incline Your ear to me and hear my words.

⁷ Show Your marvelous mercies, You Who are the Savior of those who trust in You from such as resist Your right hand.

¹⁵ But I will behold Your face in righteousness. And when I awake, I shall be satisfied with Your image. To him who excels: A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. Who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies (and from the hand of Saul) and said,

31 Now he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and he has gotten all this honor from our father’s goods.”

² Also Jacob beheld the face of Laban, that it was not towards him as in times past.

³ And the LORD said to Jacob, “Return into the land of your fathers, and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”

⁴ Therefore, Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock.

⁵ Then he said to them, “I see your father’s face, that it is not towards me as it used to be. But the God of my father has been with me.

⁶ “And you know that I have served your father with all my might.

⁷ “But your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times. Yet God did not allow him to hurt me.

⁸ “If he said thus: ‘The spotted shall be your wages’, then all the sheep bore spotted. And if he said thus: ‘The parti-colored shall be your reward’, then all the sheep bore parti-colored.

⁹ “Thus has God taken away your father’s substance and given it to me.

¹⁰ “For in breeding time, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats lept upon the female goats that were parti-colored with little and great spots spotted.

¹¹ “And the Angel of God said to me in a dream, ‘Jacob.’ And I answered, ‘Lo, I am here.’

¹² “And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes, now, and see all the male goats leaping upon the female goats that are parti-colored, spotted with little and great spots. For I have seen all that Laban does to you.

¹³ ‘I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, where you vowed a vow to Me. Now arise, get out of this country and return to the land where you were born.’”

¹⁴ Then Rachel and Leah answered, and said to him, “Do we have any more portion and inheritance in our father’s house?

¹⁵ “Does he not count us as strangers? For he has sold us and has eaten up and consumed our money.

¹⁶ “Therefore, all the riches which God has taken from our father is ours and our children’s. Now, then, whatever God has said to you, do it.”

¹⁷ Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and his wives upon camels.

¹⁸ And he carried away all his flocks, and all his substance which he had gotten (his riches which he had gotten in Padan Aram) to go to Isaac, his father, to the land of Canaan.

¹⁹ When Laban was gone to sheer his sheep, then Rachel stole her father’s idols.

²⁰ Thus, Jacob stole away the heart of Laban the Aramite. For he did not tell him that he fled.

²¹ So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up and passed the river and set his face toward Mount Gilead.

⁷ “Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

⁸ “For whoever asks, receives. And the one who seeks, finds. And to the one who knocks, it shall be opened.

⁹ “For what man is there among you who, if his son asks him for bread, would give him a stone?

¹⁰ “Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?

¹¹ “If you then, who are evil, can give to your children good gifts, how much more shall your Father, Who is in Heaven, give good things to those who ask Him?