Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²¹ Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not been taught since the land was founded?

²² He is seated upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; he stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:

²³ He brings the powerful to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as if they had never been,

²⁴ As if they had never been planted, as if they had never been sown, as if their stock had never taken root in the earth; even blowing upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

²⁵ To whom then will ye liken me, or what shall ye compare me to? saith the Holy One.

²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high and behold who has created these things; he brings out his host by number; he calls them all by their names; none shall be lacking by the greatness of his might and by the strength of his power.

²⁷ ¶ Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest thou, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

²⁸ Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the God of the age is the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth? He does not faint, nor is he weary; and there is no one that can attain to his intelligence.

²⁹ He gives power to the faint; and to those that have no might he increases strength.

³⁰ The young men faint and are weary; the children stumble and fall;

³¹ but those that wait for the LORD shall have new strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

¹ ¶ Halelu-JAH: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for praise is pleasant and beautiful.

² The LORD, he who builds up Jerusalem; shall gather together the outcasts of Israel.

³ He heals the broken hearted, and he binds up their wounds.

⁴ He counts the number of the stars and calls them all by their names.

⁵ Great is our Lord and of great power; his intelligence is infinite.

⁶ The LORD lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked down to the earth.

⁷ Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:

⁸ Who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares the rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.

⁹ He who gives the beast his food and to the sons of the ravens which cry unto him.

¹⁰ He does not delight in the strength of the horse; nor does he take pleasure in the legs of a man.

¹¹ The LORD takes pleasure in those that fear him, in those that wait upon his mercy.

²⁰ He has not dealt so with the other nations, which have not known his judgments. Halelu-JAH.

¹⁶ For though I preach the gospel, I have no reason to glory, for it is an obligation laid upon me; for woe is me, if I do not preach the gospel!

¹⁷ For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, the stewardship of the gospel is committed unto me.

¹⁸ What reward, then, shall I have? That preaching the gospel, I may make the gospel of the Christ without charge, that I abuse not my authority in the gospel.

¹⁹ ¶ Therefore, though I am free regarding everyone, yet I have made myself slave unto all, that I might gain the more.

²⁰ And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those that are under the law;

²¹ to those that are without law, as without law (being not without law of God, but under the law of Christ), that I might gain those that are without law.

²² To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak; I am made all things to everyone, that I might by all means save some.

²³ And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker together of it.

²⁹ ¶ And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

³⁰ But Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick of a fever, and soon they told him of her.

³¹ And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up; and the fever left her by and by, and she ministered unto them.

³² In the evening, when the sun was down, they brought unto him all that were diseased and those that were possessed with devils.

³³ And all the city was gathered together at the door.

³⁴ And he healed many that were sick of diverse diseases and cast out many devils and suffered not the devils to speak because they knew him.

³⁵ And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place and prayed there.

³⁶ And Simon and those that were with him followed after him.

³⁷ And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.

³⁸ And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns that I may preach there also, for truly I came forth for that purpose.

³⁹ And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee and cast out devils.