Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

107 A canticle of a psalm for David himself.

² My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and will give praise, with my glory.

³ Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the morning early.

⁴ I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing unto thee among the populations.

⁵ For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth even unto the clouds.

⁶ Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and thy glory over all the earth:

⁷ That thy beloved may be delivered. Save with thy right hand and hear me.

1 Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke to Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and said to him:

² Moses my servant is dead: arise, and pass over this Jordan, thou and thy people with thee, into the land which I will give to the children of Israel.

³ I will deliver to you every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, as I have said to Moses.

⁴ From the desert and from Libanus unto the great river Euphrates, all the land of the Hethites unto the great sea toward the going; down of the sun, shall be your border.

⁵ No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I have been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee.

⁶ Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt divide by lot to this people the land, for which I swore to their fathers, that I would deliver it to them.

⁷ Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou mayst observe and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst understand all things which thou dost.

⁸ Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt meditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all things that are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand it.

⁹ Behold I command thee, take courage, and be strong. Fear not and be not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all things whatsoever thou shalt go to.

¹⁰ And Josue commanded the princes of the people, saying: Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, and say:

¹¹ Prepare you victuals: for after the third day you shall pass over the Jordan and shall go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give you.

¹⁷ But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

¹⁸ And knowest his will, and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law,

¹⁹ Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

²⁰ An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

²¹ Thou therefore that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou that preachest that men should not steal, stealest:

²² Thou that sayest, men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:

²³ Thou that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.

²⁴ (For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)

²⁵ Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law; but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

²⁶ If, then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

²⁷ And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfill the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

²⁸ For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly; nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh:

²⁹ But he is a Jew, that is one inwardly; and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.