Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁰ And Jehovah addeth to speak unto Ahaz, saying:

¹¹ `Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God, Make deep the request, or make [it] high upwards.'

¹² And Ahaz saith, `I do not ask nor try Jehovah.'

¹³ And he saith, `Hear, I pray you, O house of David, Is it a little thing for you to weary men, That ye weary also my God?

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,

¹⁵ Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good.

¹⁶ For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.

80 To the Overseer. -- `On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. -- A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs -- shine forth,

² Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, Wake up Thy might, and come for our salvation.

³ O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

⁴ Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.

⁵ Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.

⁶ Thou makest us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies mock at it.

⁷ God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

¹⁷ Let Thy hand be on the man of Thy right hand, On the son of man Thou hast strengthened for Thyself.

¹⁸ And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!

1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God --

² which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings --

³ concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh,

⁴ who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord;

⁵ through whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;

⁶ among whom are also ye, the called of Jesus Christ;

⁷ to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints; Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ!

¹⁸ And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: For his mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit,

¹⁹ and Joseph her husband being righteous, and not willing to make her an example, did wish privately to send her away.

²⁰ And on his thinking of these things, lo, a messenger of the Lord in a dream appeared to him, saying, `Joseph, son of David, thou mayest not fear to receive Mary thy wife, for that which in her was begotten [is] of the Holy Spirit,

²¹ and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.'

²² And all this hath come to pass, that it may be fulfilled that was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

²³ `Lo, the virgin shall conceive, and she shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel,' which is, being interpreted `With us [he is] God.'

²⁴ And Joseph, having risen from the sleep, did as the messenger of the Lord directed him, and received his wife,

²⁵ and did not know her till she brought forth her son -- the first-born, and he called his name Jesus.