Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
46 Mary said,
“My soul declares that the Lord is great,
47 my spirit exults in my savior, my God.
48 He saw his servant-girl in her humility;
from now, I’ll be blessed by all peoples to come.
49 The Powerful One, whose name is Holy,
has done great things for me, for me.
50 His mercy extends from father to son,
from mother to daughter for those who fear him.
51 Powerful things he has done with his arm:
he routed the arrogant through their own cunning.
52 Down from their thrones he hurled the rulers,
up from the earth he raised the humble.
53 The hungry he filled with the fat of the land,
but the rich he sent off with nothing to eat.
54 He has rescued his servant, Israel his child,
because he remembered his mercy of old,
55 just as he said to our long-ago ancestors—
Abraham and his descendants forever.”
5 That’s why, when the Messiah comes into the world, this is what he says:
You didn’t want sacrifices and offerings;
instead, you’ve given me a body.
6 You didn’t like burnt offerings and sin-offerings;
7 then I said, “Look! Here I am!
This is what it says about me in the scroll, the book:
I’ve come, O God, to do your will.”
8 When he says, earlier, “you didn’t want, and you didn’t like, sacrifices, offerings, burnt offerings and sin-offerings” (all of which are offered in accordance with the law), 9 then he says, “Look! I’ve come to do your will!” He takes away the first so that he can establish the second. 10 And it’s by that “will” that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus the Messiah, once for all.
Scripture quotations from The New Testament for Everyone are copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2011, 2018, 2019.