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.

⁵ The Lord GOD of the hosts is he that touches the earth, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall all rise up like a river and shall be sunk, as the river of Egypt.

⁶ He that built his degrees in the heaven and has founded his gathering upon the earth; he that calls the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.

⁷ O sons of Israel, Are ye not as sons of the Ethiopians unto me, said the LORD? Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Palestinians from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

⁸ Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are against the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, said the LORD.

⁹ For, behold, I will command, and I will cause the house of Israel to be sifted among all the Gentiles like as the grain is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall to the earth.

¹⁰ All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, For our sake the evil shall not come near nor overtake us.

¹¹ ¶ In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen and close up its breaches; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

¹² that those who are called by my name may possess the remnant of Edom and all the Gentiles, said the LORD that does this.

¹³ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall catch up with the reaper, and the treader of grapes with him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop new wine, and all the hills shall melt.

¹⁴ And I will turn the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them.

¹⁵ For I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, said the LORD thy God.

⁴¹ The Jews then murmured of him because he said, I AM the bread which descended from the heaven.

⁴² And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he says, I descended from heaven?

⁴³ Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.

⁴⁴ No one can come to me unless the Father who has sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard from the Father and has learned comes unto me.

⁴⁶ Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is of God, he has seen the Father.

⁴⁷ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes in me has eternal life.

⁴⁸ I AM the bread of life.

⁴⁹ Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness and are dead.

⁵⁰ This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

⁵¹ I AM the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, they shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.