Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴ And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

⁵ Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I hallowed thee, I appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.

⁶ And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child.

⁷ But Jehovah said unto me, Say not, I am a child; for thou shalt go to whomsoever I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

⁸ Be not afraid of them; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith Jehovah.

⁹ And Jehovah put forth his hand and touched my mouth; and Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

¹⁰ See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

71 In thee, Jehovah, do I trust: let me never be ashamed.

² Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me; incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

³ Be to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

⁴ My God, rescue me out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

⁵ For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah, my confidence from my youth.

⁶ On thee have I been stayed from the womb; from the bowels of my mother thou didst draw me forth: my praise shall be continually of thee.

¹⁸ For ye have not come to [the mount] that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest,

¹⁹ and trumpet's sound, and voice of words; which they that heard, excusing themselves, declined [the] word being addressed to them any more:

²⁰ (for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

²¹ and, so fearful was the sight, Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and full of trembling;)

²² but ye have come to mount Zion; and to [the] city of [the] living God, heavenly Jerusalem; and to myriads of angels,

²³ the universal gathering; and to [the] assembly of the firstborn [who are] registered in heaven; and to God, judge of all; and to [the] spirits of just [men] made perfect;

²⁴ and to Jesus, mediator of a new covenant; and to [the] blood of sprinkling, speaking better than Abel.

²⁵ See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him [who does so] from heaven:

²⁶ whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet once will *I* shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.

²⁷ But this Yet once, signifies the removing of what is shaken, as being made, that what is not shaken may remain.

²⁸ Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear.

²⁹ For also our God [is] a consuming fire.

¹⁰ And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

¹¹ And lo, [there was] a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent together and wholly unable to lift her head up.

¹² And Jesus, seeing her, called to [her], and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.

¹³ And he laid his hands upon her; and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

¹⁴ But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which [people] ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

¹⁵ The Lord therefore answered him and said, Hypocrites! does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger and leading [it] away, water [it]?

¹⁶ And this [woman], who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, [these] eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

¹⁷ And as he said these things, all who were opposed to him were ashamed; and all the crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things which were being done by him.