Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

121 I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: We shall go into the house of the Lord.

² Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.

³ Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.

⁴ For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.

⁵ Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David.

⁶ Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and abundance for them that love thee.

⁷ Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers.

⁸ For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.

⁹ Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee.

6 In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple.

² Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they hew.

³ And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory.

⁴ And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

⁵ And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.

⁶ And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.

⁷ And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed.

⁸ And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me.

5 And it came to pass, that when the multitudes pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth,

² And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.

³ And going into one of the ships that was Simon's, he desired him to draw back a little from the land. And sitting he taught the multitudes out of the ship.

⁴ Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon: Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.

⁵ And Simon answering said to him: Master, we have labored all the night, and have taken nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net.

⁶ And when they had done this, they enclosed a very great multitude of fishes, and their net broke.

⁷ And they beckoned to their partners that were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they were almost sinking.

⁸ Which when Simon Peter saw, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying: Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

⁹ For he was wholly astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken.

¹⁰ And so were also James and John the sons of Zebedee, who were Simon's partners. And Jesus saith to Simon: Fear not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

¹¹ And having brought their ships to land, leaving all things, they followed him.