Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

146 Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul.

² As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing psalms unto my God while I have my being.

³ Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

⁴ His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.

⁵ Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God,

⁶ Who made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever;

⁷ Who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth bread to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;

⁸ Jehovah openeth [the eyes of] the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;

⁹ Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.

¹⁰ Jehovah will reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Halleluiah!

2 And Naomi had a relation of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

² And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me, I pray, go to the field and glean among the ears of corn after [him] in whose sight I shall find favour. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.

³ And she went; and she came and gleaned in the fields after the reapers; and she chanced to light on an allotment of Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

⁴ And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem; and he said to the reapers, Jehovah be with you! And they said to him, Jehovah bless thee!

⁵ And Boaz said to his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose maiden is this?

⁶ And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish maiden who came back with Naomi out of the fields of Moab;

⁷ and she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers. And she came, and has continued from the morning until now: her sitting in the house has been little as yet.

⁸ And Boaz said to Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from here, but keep here with my maidens.

⁹ Let thine eyes be on the field which is being reaped, and go thou after them; have I not charged the young men not to touch thee? And when thou art athirst, go to the vessels and drink of what the young men draw.

²¹ But now without law righteousness of God is manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets;

²² righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ towards all, and upon all those who believe: for there is no difference;

²³ for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²⁴ being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which [is] in Christ Jesus;

²⁵ whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

²⁶ for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just, and justify him that is of [the] faith of Jesus.

²⁷ Where then [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;

²⁸ for we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without works of law.

²⁹ Is [God] the God of Jews only? is he not of [the] nations also? Yea, of nations also:

³⁰ since indeed [it is] one God who shall justify [the] circumcision on the principle of faith, and uncircumcision by faith.

³¹ Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: [no,] but we establish law.