Mass readings in Scots: The Baptism of the Lord (Year C)

First reading
Isaiah 42: 1-4, 6-7 (Year A. Permitted Years B and C)

[An' quo the Lord:]
Leuk, it's my ain arle'd Loon, I maun lippen till him;
my ain walit, my heart's wi' himsel:
my Spreit on his head I sal toom;
right-recht till the folk he sal tell.
He sal neither sugh nor ca',
nor his word tharout send ava':
The chirtit segg he winna smoor;
the right ay till truth he sal schaw.
Na, he sal neither swak nor swee,
till right on the yirth he gar be;
an' the Isles, they sal bide for his law.
Mysel, that's the Lord, I hae ca'd thee in right;
by yer han' I sal haud an' sal keep yo,
an' mak yo folk's tryst; till the natiouns a' till gie light.
The een sae blin' till wauken;
the thral, frae haud till slakken;
aye, wha bide by themsel, i' the houss o' thril, out o' sight.


[From Isaiah frae Hebrew intil Scottis, by P. Hately Waddell 1879 (Amazon US here; Amazon UK here)]

Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 28: 1-4, 9-10 (Year A. Permitted Years B and C)

Gie ye till the Lord, ye sons o' the mighty;
gie ye till the Lord gudeliheid an' strenth :
Gie ye till the Lord the gudeliheid o' his name;
lout ye till the Lord i' the lo'esomness o' haliheid!

The sigh o' the Lord's atowre the spates;
[...] the Lord is atowre mony feck o' fludes.
The sigh o' the Lord's wi' pith;
the sigh o' the Lord's wi' gloiry.

[The God o' gudeliheid gars thunner:]
Bot it 's intil his ain halie howf, the hail o' Himsel speaks gloiry.
The Lord sits heigh on the spates;
aye, the Lord sits King for evir.

[From Psalm 29, The Psalms: frae Hebrew intil Scottis P. Hately Waddell (1891) here]


Second reading
Acts 10: 34-38 (Year A. Permitted Years B and C)

And Peter begude to speak, and said, “I see that God is nae chooser o’ faces: but amang a nations, he that fears him, and dis richt, is acceptable to him.

"As to the word he sent oot to the sons o’ Isra’l, proclaimin the Gude-word o' peace throwe Jesus the Christ (the same is Lord o’ a’ !). Ye ken what already has taen place, throwe the hail o’ Judea, beginnin frae Galilee, eftir the bapteezin that John preached, e’en aboot Jesus o’ Nazareth; hoo God anointit him wi’ Holie Spirit and pooer; wha gaed aboot doin gude, and healin a’ that war in thrall to Sautan; for God was wi’ him."

[From The New Testament in Braid Scots William Wye Smith (1904) here]

Gospel reading
Luke 3: 15-16, 21-22

Noo, as a’ the folk war lookin forrit, and war switherin i’ their hearts aboot John, gin aiblins he micht be the Messiah, John answer’t, sayin till ane-and-a’, “I, indeed, bapteeze ye wi’ watir; but Ane comes wha is michtier than I; the whang o’ whase shoon I am-na fit to lout doon and lowse. He sal bapteeze ye wi’ Holie Spirit and wi' fire."

Noo, it was, that whan a’ the folk war bapteez’t, Jesus too was bapteez’t, and continued in prayer -and the heevens war unsteekit, and the Holie Spirit cam doon in bodily form like a doo upon him;
and a voice cam oot o’ the heevens, “Thou art my Son, the Beloved Ane; in Thee I delicht!”

[From The New Testament in Braid Scots William Wye Smith (1904) here]