Mass readings in Scots: Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Year (Year C)

First reading
Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2: 2-4

Hou lang, O Laird, wul yeir lugs be shut ti ma cry?
A mak an outcry ti ye aboot violence,
but ye dinna send salvation.
Why dae ye mak me see evil-daein,
an why is ma een fixit on wrang?
For wastin an violence is afore me:
an thare is fichtin an bitter argument.

An the Laird repones an says,
"Pit the vision i writin
an mak it clear on stanes,
sae the reader gaes glegly.
For the vision is still for the fixit time,
an it gangs speedie ti the end, an it winna be fause:
gin it is slow i cumin, aye wait for it;
acause it wul shurlie cum, it winna be kept back.
"As for the man o pride, ma saul haes nae pleisir i him;
but the upricht man wul hae life throu his guid faith."

[Own translation, level 2 4/10/19. For details of methodology see here.]


Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 94: 1-2, 6-9

Hereawa folk, lat us lilt to the Lord;
a fu' loud lat us lilt to the craig o' our ain heal-ha'din.
Lat us ben afore him wi' a lilt o' laud;
wi' sangs fu' heigh, lat us lilt until him.

O hereawa syne, lat us lout an' beck;
lat us laigh on our knees, till the Lord our Makar.
For himlane, he is God o' our ain;
an' oursels the folk o' his hirsel;
an' eke the flock o' his han':

Gin his cry, but the day, ye wad hear till.
O haud-na yer hearts sae dour, as ance in the weary warsle;
as ance in the day o' thraw, in that gateless grun', ye daurd till:
Whan yer faithers they tempit,
they tried me sair; an' my warks o' wonner they saw still.

[From Psalm 95, The Psalms: frae Hebrew intil Scottis P. Hately Waddell (1891) here]

Second reading
2 Timothy 1: 6-8, 13-14

For quhilk cause I monest thee, that thou raase agane the grace of God, that is in thee be the setting on of myn handis. For quhy God gaue nocht to vs the spirit of drede, bot of virtue, and of lufe, and of sobirnes. Tharfore will thou nocht schaam the witnessing of our Lord Jesu Crist, nouthir me, his presonnere; bot trauale thou togiddir in the vangele be the virtue of God.

Haue thou the forme of halsum wordis, quhilk thou herd of me in faith and lufe in Crist Jesu. Kepe thou the gude takin to thi keping be the Haligaast, that duellis in vs.

[From The New Testament in Scots Murdoch Nisbet [c.1520] (1903) vol 2 here


Gospel reading
Luke 17: 5-10

And the apostlis said to the Lord, Encresse to vs faithe. And the Lord said, Gif ye haue faithe as the corn of syneuey, ye sal say to this more tre, Be thou drawn vp be the rute, and be ouirplantit into the see; and it sal obey to you.

Bot quha of you has a seruand eerand or lesuand oxen, quhilk sais to him, quhen he turnis agane fra the feeld, Anon ga and sit to mete? And sais nocht to him, Mak reddy that I soup, and belt thee, and serue me quhile I ete and drink; and eftire this thou sal ete and drink ? Quhethir he has grace to that seruand for he did that that he comandit him? Nay, I gesse. Sa ye, quhen ye haue done al thingis that ar comandit to you, say ye, We ar vnproffitabile seruandis: we haue done that that we aw to do.

[From The New Testament in Scots Murdoch Nisbet [c.1520] (1901) vol 1 here]