Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁵ Thus said Jehovah: Cursed [is] the man who doth trust in man, And hath made flesh his arm, And from Jehovah whose heart turneth.

⁶ And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.

⁷ Blessed [is] the man who trusteth in Jehovah, And whose confidence hath been Jehovah.

⁸ And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit.

⁹ Crooked [is] the heart above all things, And it [is] incurable -- who doth know it?

¹⁰ I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

1 O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;

² But -- in the law of Jehovah [is] his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:

³ And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.

⁴ Not so the wicked: But -- as chaff that wind driveth away!

⁵ Therefore the wicked rise not in judgment, Nor sinners in the company of the righteous,

⁶ For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!

¹² And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?

¹³ and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen;

¹⁴ and if Christ hath not risen, then void [is] our preaching, and void also your faith,

¹⁵ and we also are found false witnesses of God, because we did testify of God that He raised up the Christ, whom He did not raise if then dead persons do not rise;

¹⁶ for if dead persons do not rise, neither hath Christ risen,

¹⁷ and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;

¹⁸ then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

¹⁹ if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

²⁰ And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead -- the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

¹⁷ and having come down with them, he stood upon a level spot, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea, and Jerusalem, and the maritime Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their sicknesses,

¹⁸ and those harassed by unclean spirits, and they were healed,

¹⁹ and all the multitude were seeking to touch him, because power from him was going forth, and he was healing all.

²⁰ And he, having lifted up his eyes to his disciples, said: `Happy the poor -- because yours is the reign of God.

²¹ `Happy those hungering now -- because ye shall be filled. `Happy those weeping now -- because ye shall laugh.

²² `Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake --

²³ rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward [is] great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets.

²⁴ `But wo to you -- the rich, because ye have got your comfort.

²⁵ `Wo to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. `Wo to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.

²⁶ `Wo to you when all men shall speak well of you -- for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.