Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

GIMEL.

¹⁷ ¶ Deal bountifully with thy slave that I may live and keep thy word.

¹⁸ ¶ Open my eyes, and I shall behold the wonders of thy law.

¹⁹ ¶ I am a stranger in the earth; hide not thy commandments from me.

²⁰ ¶ My soul is broken from desiring thy judgments at all times.

²¹ ¶ Thou hast reprehended the proud; cursed are those who err from thy commandments.

²² ¶ Remove from me reproach and contempt, for I have kept thy testimonies.

²³ ¶ Princes also sat and spoke against me as thy slave spoke according to thy statutes.

²⁴ ¶ For thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellors.

DALETH.

²⁵ ¶ My soul cleaves unto the dust; quicken me according to thy word.

²⁶ ¶ I have declared my ways, and thou didst hear me; teach me thy statutes.

²⁷ Make me to understand the way of thy precepts; so I shall meditate of thy wondrous works.

²⁸ ¶ My soul melts for heaviness; strengthen me according to thy word.

²⁹ Remove from me the way of lying, and from thy law grant me mercy.

³⁰ ¶ I have chosen the way of truth; I have laid thy judgments before me.

³¹ I have stuck unto thy testimonies; O LORD, put me not to shame.

³² I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

¹³ In that day the fair virgins and young men shall faint for thirst.

¹⁴ Those that swear by the guiltiness of Samaria and say, As thy God of Dan lives; and, As the way of Beersheba lives, even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

9 ¶ I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said, Smite the threshold and shake the doors and cut the head of them all into pieces; and I will slay the last of them with the sword; there shall be none of them left to flee away or to escape.

² Though they dig unto Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down;

³ and though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out of there; and though they hide from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

⁴ and though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

2 ¶ My little children, I write these things unto you, that ye sin not; and if anyone has sinned, we have an Advocate before the Father, Jesus, the righteous Christ;

² and he is the reconciliation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

³ ¶ And in this we do know that we have known him if we keep his commandments.

⁴ He that says, I have known him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

⁵ But whosoever keeps his word, in him verily is the charity of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

⁶ He that says he abides in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.