Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

118 Alleluia. Acknowledge ye to the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy is without end. (Alleluia. Give ye thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his love is forever.)

² Israel say now, for he is good; for his mercy is without end (for his love is forever).

¹⁴ The Lord is my strength, and my praising; and he is made to me into health (and he is my salvation, or my deliverance/and he hath saved me).

¹⁵ The voice of full out joying and of health; be in the tabernacles of just men. The right hand of the Lord hath done virtue, (The voice of rejoicing and of victory, be in the tents, or the camp, of the righteous. The right hand of the Lord hath done mightily,)

¹⁶ the right hand of the Lord enhanced me; the right hand of the Lord hath done virtue. (the right hand of the Lord is exalted; the right hand of the Lord hath done mightily.)

¹⁷ I shall not die, but I shall live; and I shall tell (out) the works of the Lord.

¹⁸ The Lord chastising hath chastised me; and he gave not me to death. (Yea, the Lord hath punished me; but he did not give me over to death.)

¹⁹ Open ye to me the gates of rightfulness, and I shall enter by those, and I shall acknowledge to the Lord; (Open ye for me the gates of righteousness, or of victory, and I shall enter in by them, and I shall praise the Lord/and I shall give thanks to the Lord;)

²⁰ this gate is of the Lord, and just men shall enter by it. (this is the gate of the Lord, and the righteous shall enter by it.)

²¹ I shall acknowledge to thee, for thou heardest me; and art made to me into health. (I shall praise thee, for thou hast answered me; and thou hast given me the victory/and thou art my salvation, or my deliverance/and thou hast saved me.)

²² The stone which the builders reproved; this is made into the head (stone) of the corner. (The stone which the builders rejected; it is made into the chief cornerstone.)

²³ This thing is made of the Lord; and it is wonderful before our eyes. (This thing was done by the Lord; and it is wonderful to behold.)

²⁴ This is the day which the Lord made; make we full out joy, and be we glad therein. (This is the day which the Lord hath made; let us rejoice, and be glad in it.)

1 In the beginning God made of nought heaven and earth. (In the beginning God made out of nothing the heavens and the earth.)

² Forsooth the earth was idle and void, and darknesses were on the face of (the) depth; and the Spirit of the Lord was borne on the waters [and the Spirit of God was borne upon the waters].

³ And God said, Light be made, and the light was made.

⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good, and he parted the light from (the) darknesses;

⁵ and he called the light, day, and the darknesses, night. And the eventide and the morrowtide was made, one day (the first day).

⁶ And God said, The firmament be made in the midst of (the) waters, and part (the) waters from (the) waters.

⁷ And God made the firmament, and parted the waters that were under the firmament, from the waters that were on the firmament [from these that were above the firmament]; and it was done so.

⁸ And God called the firmament, (the) heaven(s). And the eventide and the morrowtide was made, the second day.

⁹ Forsooth God said, The waters, that be under (the) heaven(s), be gathered into one place, and a dry place appear; and it was done so.

¹⁰ And God called the dry place, earth; and he called the gatherings together of waters, the seas. And God saw that it was good;

¹¹ and said, The earth bring forth green herb, and making seed, and an apple tree making fruit by his kind, whose seed be in itself, on [the] earth; and it was done so. (and said, Let the earth bring forth green herbs, which make seed after their kind, and trees making fruit after their kind, whose seed be in them, all over the earth; and it was done so.)

¹² And the earth brought forth green herb and making seed by his kind, and a tree making fruit, and each having seed by his kind. And God saw that it was good. (And the earth brought forth green herbs, which make seed after their kind, and trees making fruit, and each having seed after its kind. And God saw that it was good.)

¹³ And the eventide and the morrowtide was made, the third day.

¹⁴ Forsooth God said, Lights be made in the firmament of (the) heaven(s), and part they the day and (the) night; and be they into signs, and times, and days, and years;

¹⁵ and shine those in the firmament of (the) heaven(s), and lighten they the earth; and it was done so.

¹⁶ And God made two great lights, the greater light that it should be before to the day, and the less(er) light that it should be before to the night; and God made (the) stars;

¹⁷ and setted them in the firmament of (the) heaven(s), (so) that they should shine on [the] earth,

¹⁸ and that they should be before to the day and (before) [to the] night, and should part (the) light and (the) darkness. And God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And the eventide and the morrowtide was made, the fourth day.

³⁵ But some man saith, How shall dead men rise again, or in what manner body shall they come?

³⁶ [O!] unwise man, that thing that thou sowest, is not quickened, but it die first;

³⁷ and that thing that thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that is to come, but a naked corn, as of wheat, or of some other seeds;

³⁸ and God giveth to it a body, as he will, and to each of seeds a proper body.

³⁹ Not each flesh is the same flesh, but one is of men, another is of beasts, another is of birds, another is of fishes.

⁴⁰ And there be heavenly bodies, and there be earthly bodies [and earthly bodies]; but one glory is of heavenly bodies, and another is of earthly [bodies].

⁴¹ Another clearness is of the sun, another clearness is of the moon, and another clearness is of the stars; and a star diverseth from a star in clearness [forsooth a star diverseth from a star in clearness].

⁴² And so the again-rising of dead men. It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in uncorruption;

⁴³ it is sown in unnobleness [it is sown in unnobility], it shall rise in glory; it is sown in infirmity, it shall rise in virtue;

⁴⁴ it is sown a beastly body, it shall rise a spiritual body. If there is a beastly body, there is also a spiritual body;

⁴⁵ as it is written, The first man Adam was made into a soul living, the last Adam into a spirit quickening.

⁴⁶ But the first is not that that is spiritual [But not first was that body that is spiritual], but that that is beast-like, afterward that that is spiritual.

⁴⁷ The first man of earth is earthly; the second man of heaven is heavenly [the second man of heaven is heaven-like].

⁴⁸ Such as the earthly man is, such be [and] the earthly men; and such as the heavenly man is, such be also the heavenly men.

⁴⁹ Therefore as we have borne the image of the earthly man, bear we also the image of the heavenly man [bear we and the image of the heavenly].