Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm of praise. Of David.

145 I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

² Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

³ Great is Jehovah, and exceedingly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

⁴ One generation shall laud thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

⁵ I will speak of the glorious splendour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

¹⁷ Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

¹⁸ Jehovah is nigh unto all that call upon him, unto all that call upon him in truth.

¹⁹ He fulfilleth the desire of them that fear him; he heareth their cry, and saveth them.

²⁰ Jehovah keepeth all that love him, and all the wicked will he destroy.

²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of Jehovah; and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by the prophet Haggai unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

² Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that Jehovah's house should be built.

³ And the word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

⁴ Is it time for you that ye should dwell in your wainscoted houses, while this house lieth waste?

⁵ And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.

⁶ Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but are not satisfied; ye drink, but are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages for a bag with holes.

⁷ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.

⁸ Go up to the mountain and bring wood, and build the house, and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.

⁹ Ye looked for much, and behold it was little; and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Wherefore? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, whilst ye run every man to his own house.

¹⁰ Therefore over you the heavens withhold their dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.

¹¹ And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon man, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

¹² And Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people, hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, according as Jehovah their God had sent him, and the people feared before Jehovah.

¹³ Then spoke Haggai, Jehovah's messenger, in Jehovah's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith Jehovah.

¹⁴ And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked at the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God,

¹⁵ in the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

20 And it came to pass on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and announcing the glad tidings, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up,

² and spoke to him saying, Tell us by what authority thou doest these things, or who is it who has given thee this authority?

³ And he answering said to them, *I* also will ask you [one] thing, and tell me:

⁴ The baptism of John, was it of heaven or of men?

⁵ And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we should say, Of heaven, he will say, Why have ye not believed him?

⁶ but if we should say, Of men, the whole people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.

⁷ And they answered, they did not know whence.

⁸ And Jesus said to them, Neither do *I* tell you by what authority I do these things.