Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
139 O LORD, You have searched me and known.
2 You know my sitting and my rising. You understand my thoughts afar off.
3 You winnow my paths, and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue but that You know it wholly, O LORD.
5 You fortify me behind and before and lay Your hand upon me.
6 Your knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is so high that I cannot attain to it.
13 For You have possessed my core. You have covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wondrously made. Marvelous are Your works; and my soul knows it well!
15 My bones are not hidden from You; though I was made in secret, fashioned beneath, in the Earth.
16 Your eyes saw me when I was without form; for in Your Book were all things written, days fashioned at a time when there were still none of them.
17 How dear, therefore, are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they are more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.
14 ‘Behold, therefore,’ says the LORD, ‘the days come that it shall no more be said, “The LORD lives, Who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,”
15 ‘but, “The LORD lives, Who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the North, and from all the lands where He had scattered them.” And I will bring them back into their land that I gave to their fathers.
16 ‘Behold,’ says the LORD, ‘I will send out many fishermen, and they shall fish for them. And afterward, I will send out many hunters. And they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the caves of the rocks.
17 ‘For My Eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hidden from My Face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My Eyes.
18 ‘And first, I will repay their iniquity and their sin double, because they have defiled My land, and have filled My inheritance with their filthy carcasses and their abominations.’”
19 O LORD, my fortress and my strength and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the world, and shall say, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, in which there was no profit.”
20 Shall a man make gods for himself, and they are not gods?
21 “Behold, therefore, I will teach them this once. I will show them My Hand and My Power. And they shall know that My Name is the LORD.”
17 “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond, engraved upon the tablet of their heart and upon the horns of your altars.
2 “They remember their altars as their children, with their groves by the green trees, upon the high hills.
3 “O, My mountain in the field! I will give your substance, all your treasures, to be plundered, for the sin of your high places, throughout all your borders.
4 “And you, even you, shall release your heritage that I gave you. And I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land, which you do not know. For you have kindled a fire in My anger, which shall burn forever.”
7 Tychicus, our beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, shall make known to you my whole state.
8 I have sent him to you for the same purpose, so that he might know your state and might comfort your hearts
9 with Onesimus, a faithful and a beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known to you all things here.
10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, salutes you; and Marcus, Barnabas’ cousin (concerning whom you received the commandment: ‘If he comes to you, receive him.’);
11 and Jesus, who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for the Kingdom of God who are of the circumcision. They have been a comfort to me.
12 Epaphras, the servant of Christ (who is one of you) greets you and always contends for you in prayers - that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God.
13 For I bear witness of him, that he has a great zeal for you and for those of Laodicea and those of Hierapolis.
14 Luke, the beloved physician, greets you; and Demas.
15 Greet the brothers who are of Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.
16 And when this letter is read among you, have it read in the church of the Laodiceans also, and that you likewise read the letter written from Laodicea.
17 And say to Archippus, ‘Pay attention to the ministry that you have received in the Lord, so that you may fulfill it.’
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