Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁷ Deal bountifully with Thy servant, that I may live and keep Thy word.

¹⁸ Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law.

¹⁹ I am a stranger on the earth; hide not Thy commandments from me.

²⁰ My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath for Thy judgments at all times.

²¹ Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, that 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, but Thy servant meditated on Thy statutes.

²⁴ Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.

²⁵ My soul cleaveth unto the dust; quicken Thou me according to Thy word.

²⁶ I have declared my ways, and Thou heardest me; teach me Thy statutes.

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

²⁸ My soul melteth from heaviness; strengthen Thou me according to Thy word.

²⁹ Remove from me the way of lying, and grant me Thy law graciously.

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

³¹ I have held fast unto Thy testimonies; O Lord, put me not to shame.

³² I will run in the way of Thy commandments, when Thou shalt enlarge my heart.

⁵ And the Lord God of hosts is He that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall rise up wholly like a flood, and shall be drowned as by the flood of Egypt.

⁶ It is He that buildeth His spheres in the heaven, and hath founded His troop on the earth. He that calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth—the Lord is His name.

⁷ “Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto Me, O children of Israel?” saith the Lord. “Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? And the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

⁸ Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” saith the Lord.

⁹ “For lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, as corn is sifted in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

¹⁰ All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, who say, ‘The evil shall not overtake nor come before us.’

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

¹² that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen that are called by My name,” saith the Lord that doeth this.

¹³ “Behold, the days come,” saith the Lord, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

¹⁴ And I will bring back the captives of My people of Israel, and they shall build the wasted 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 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them,” saith the Lord thy God.

⁴¹ The Jews then murmured at Him, because He said, “I am the Bread which came down from 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 saith, ‘I came down from Heaven’?”

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

⁴⁴ No man can come to Me unless the Father who hath sent Me draw him; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.

⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned from the Father cometh unto Me.

⁴⁶ Not that any man hath seen the Father, save He that is of God; He hath seen the Father.

⁴⁷ Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth in Me hath everlasting life.

⁴⁸ I am that Bread of Life.

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

⁵⁰ This is the Bread which cometh down from Heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die.

⁵¹ I am the living Bread which came down from Heaven. If any man eat of this Bread, he shall live for ever; and the Bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”