Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
14 ¶ Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
2 He comes forth like an open flower and is cut down; he flees as a shadow and does not remain.
3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with thee?
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one.
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.
6 If thou should leave him, he will cease to exist; until then, he shall desire, as a hireling, his day.
7 ¶ For there is yet hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its tender branch will not cease.
8 Though its root waxes old in the earth and its trunk is dead in the ground,
9 at the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a new plant.
10 But when man shall die and be cut off, and the man shall perish, where shall he be?
11 The waters from the sea went, and the river ran out, it dried up.
12 So man lies down and does not rise; until there is no heaven, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.
13 O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me covered until thy wrath is past, that thou would appoint me a set time and remember me!
14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait until my transformation comes.
Aleph
3 ¶ I am a man that sees affliction in the rod of his wrath.
Aleph
2 He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Aleph
3 Surely he is turned against me; he turns his hand against me all the day.
Beth
4 My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.
Beth
5 He has built against me and compassed me with gall and travail.
Beth
6 He has set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.
Gimel
7 He has hedged me about that I cannot get out; he has made my chain heavy.
Gimel
8 Even when I cried and shouted, he shut out my prayer.
Gimel
9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
Zain
19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Zain
20 My soul shall have them still in remembrance because it is humbled in me.
Zain
21 ¶ This shall go down into my heart; therefore I shall wait.
Cheth
22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed because his mercies never diminish.
Cheth
23 They are new every morning; great is thy faith.
Cheth
24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore I will wait for him.
To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.
1 ¶ In thee, O LORD, have I waited; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in thy righteousness.
2 Incline thine ear unto me; deliver me speedily; be thou my strong rock, for a house of defence to save me.
3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake thou shalt lead me and guide me.
4 Thou shalt pull me out of the net that they have laid in secret for me; for thou art my strength.
15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those that persecute me.
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy slave; save me for thy mercies’ sake.
4 ¶ Since the Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, be ye also armed with the same thought; for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
2 so that now the time that remains in the flesh, he might live, not unto the lusts of men, but unto the will of God.
3 For it should suffice us that during the time past of our life we had done the will of the Gentiles, when we conversed in lasciviousness, lusts, drunkenness, gluttony, orgies, and abominable idolatries.
4 ¶ And it seems strange to those that speak evil of you, that ye do not run with them to the same unchecked dissolution;
5 the same shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.
6 Because for this cause was the gospel preached also to those that are dead, that they might be judged in flesh according to men, but live in spirit according to God.
7 ¶ But the end of all things is at hand; be ye, therefore, temperate and watch unto prayer.
8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity shall cover a multitude of sins.
57 ¶ When the evening was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also had been a disciple of Jesus;
58 he went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth
60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.
61 And there was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
62 Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the princes of the priests and the Pharisees came together unto Pilate,
63 saying, Lord, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night and steal him away and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead; so the last error shall be worse than the first.
65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way; make it as secure as ye can.
66 So they went and made the sepulchre secure, sealing the stone and setting a watch.
38 ¶ After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore and took the body of Jesus.
39 Then Nicodemus came also, who at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about one hundred pounds.
40 And they took the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as is the manner of the Jews to bury.
41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre, in which no one had yet been laid.
42 Therefore they laid Jesus there because of the Jews’ preparation day, for the sepulchre was near.
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