Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

113 Praise, O you servants of the LORD! Praise the Name of the LORD!

² Blessed be the Name of the LORD from henceforth and forever!

³ The LORD’s Name is praised from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same.

⁴ The LORD is high above all nations, His Glory above the heavens.

⁵ Who is like the LORD our God, Who has His dwelling on High;

⁶ Who abases Himself to behold things in the heavens and on the Earth?

⁷ He raises the needy out of the dust, lifts up the poor out of the dung,

⁸ so that He may set him with the princes, even with the princes of His people.

⁹ He makes the barren woman dwell with a family, a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!

¹⁹ Likewise, these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac.

²⁰ And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife (the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramite of Padan Aram, sister to Laban, the Aramite).

²¹ And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD was persuaded by him; and Rebekah, his wife, conceived.

²² But the children strove together within her. Therefore, she said, “Seeing this is so, why am I like this?” So, she went to ask the LORD.

²³ And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb; and two peoples shall be divided out of your core. And the one people shall be mightier than the other; and the elder shall serve the younger.”

²⁴ Therefore, when her time of deliverance was fulfilled, behold, twins were in her womb.

²⁵ So he who came out first was red. And he was as rough as a garment all over. And they called his name, Esau.

²⁶ And afterward, his brother came out. And his hand held Esau by the heel. Therefore, his name was called, Jacob. Now Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah bore them.

²⁷ And the boys grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter and lived in the fields. But Jacob was a plain man and dwelt in tents.

²⁸ And Isaac loved Esau, for venison was his meat, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creation.

¹⁶ For by Him were all things created which are in Heaven and which are on Earth—things visible and invisible —whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

¹⁷ And He is before all things. And in Him all things consist.

¹⁸ And He is the Head of the body of the Church. He is the Beginning; Firstborn from the dead; so that in all things He might have preeminence.

¹⁹ For in Him was all fullness pleased to dwell.

²⁰ And through Him were all things reconciled to Himself, having made peace by the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on Earth or things in Heaven.