Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁶ But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,

¹⁷ Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?

¹⁸ When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;

¹⁹ Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;

²⁰ Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:

²¹ These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

²² Now consider this, ye that forget +God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.

²³ Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me; and to him that ordereth [his] way will I shew the salvation of God.

¹⁵ And Nathan departed to his house. And Jehovah smote the child that Urijah's wife bore to David, and it became very sick.

¹⁶ And David besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.

¹⁷ And the elders of his house arose, [and went] to him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he ate no bread with them.

¹⁸ And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he would not hearken to our voice; and how shall we say to him, The child is dead? he may do some harm.

¹⁹ But David saw that his servants whispered, and David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

²⁰ Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing, and entered into the house of Jehovah and worshipped; then he came to his own house and required them to set bread before him, and he ate.

²¹ And his servants said to him, What thing is this which thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child alive; but as soon as the child is dead, thou dost rise and eat bread.

²² And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I thought, Who knows? [perhaps] Jehovah will be gracious to me, that the child may live.

²³ But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

²⁴ And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her; and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon; and Jehovah loved him.

²⁵ And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, for Jehovah's sake.

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that ye should no longer walk as [the rest of] the nations walk in [the] vanity of their mind,

¹⁸ being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,

¹⁹ who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.

²⁰ But *ye* have not thus learnt the Christ,

²¹ if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as [the] truth is in Jesus;

²² [namely] your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

²³ and being renewed in the spirit of your mind;

²⁴ and [your] having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.