Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

45 My heart is composing a goodly matter; I speak of the verses which I have made concerning the King; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

² Thou art fairer than the children of men; grace is poured into Thy lips; therefore God hath blessed Thee for ever.

⁶ Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; the scepter of Thy Kingdom is a righteous scepter.

⁷ Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness; therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.

⁸ All Thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made Thee glad.

⁹ Kings’ daughters were among Thy honorable women; at Thy right hand stood the queen in gold of Ophir.

3 Then said the Lord unto me, “Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love flagons of wine.”

² So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley and a half homer of barley.

³ And I said unto her, “Thou shalt abide for me many days. Thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man. So will I also be for thee.”

⁴ For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim.

⁵ Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God and David their king, and shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter days.

²⁸ Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment. And it was early, and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.

²⁹ Pilate then went out unto them and said, “What accusation bring ye against this man?”

³⁰ They answered and said unto him, “If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.”

³¹ Then said Pilate unto them, “Take ye him and judge him according to your law.” The Jews therefore said unto him, “It is not lawful for us to put any man to death,”

³² that the saying which Jesus had spoken, signifying what death He should die, might be fulfilled.