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Saturday, 31 August 2019

Mass readings in Scots: Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year (Year C)

First Reading

Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29

My son, gang aboot yer darg wi meekness,
an ye’ll win the love o them the Lord favours.
The mair heich ye staun, the mair ye maun bring yersel law;
syne ye’ll win grace in the Lord’s een.

For the Lord is michty aboon a’ things,
an he’s glorified by thae that are humble.

There’s nae healin for the prood man’s wound,
for evil has ta’en root in his soul.
The mind o the wise will dwine on a parable,
an the wise man’s joy is an ear that listens weel.

Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 68(67):4-7, 10-11

In yer kindness, O God, ye gied a hame tae the puir.

Let the richtfu fowk be blythe at the sicht o God;
they’ll lilt wi joy an gladsome sang.
Sing ye tae God, lilt oot his name wi music:
the LORD is his name.

In yer kindness, O God, ye gied a hame tae the puir.

Faither o orphans, keeper o widows,
sic is God in his haly steid.
He sets the lane-some in a dwelling o their ain,
an leads the prisoners oot tae ease an freedom.

In yer kindness, O God, ye gied a hame tae the puir.

Ye sent doon, O God, a kindly rain;
whan yer heritage was weary, ye gied it strength.
There did yer folk tak up their biding;
in yer goodness, ye made ready for the puir.

In yer kindness, O God, ye gied a hame tae the puir.

Second Reading
Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a

Brothers an sisters,

Ye’ve no come tae a thing ye can touch—
nae bleezin fire, nor mirk, nor blackness, nor storm,
nor the cry o a trumpet,
nor the voice that garred the hearers beg nae mair be said tae them.

But ye’ve come tae Mount Sion,
the toun o the leevin God, the heevenly Jerusalem,
an tae thrangs upon thrangs o angels in festal trim,
tae the kirk o the first-born, whase names are written i the heeven,
tae God himsel, the judge o a’,
tae the souls o the just made hale an perfeck,
an tae Jesus, the go-between o a new covenant.

[All three readings above from ESV, translated into Scots by ChatGPT prompt to translate into modern literary Scots 31/8/25]

Gospel reading
Luke 14: 1, 7-14

Ande it was done, quhen [Jesus] had entrit into the hous of a prince of Phariseis in ye sabot to ete brede, thai aspiet him. He said alsa a parabile to men biddin to a feest, and beheld hou thai cheisit the first sitting places; and said to thame, "Quhen thou art biddin to bridales, sit nocht at the met in the first place: or perauenture a worthiare than thou be biddin of him; and or perauentur he cum that callit thee and him and say to thee, 'Geue place to this'; and than thou sal begynn with schame to hald the lawest place. Bot quhen thou art biddin to a feest, ga and sit doun in the lawest place; that quhen he cummis that callit thee to the feest, he say to thee, 'Freend, cum up hieare.' Than wirschip salbe to thee before men that sittis at the mete. For ilk that vphieis him self salbe made law; and he that mekes him self salbe vphiet."

And he said to him that had biddin him to the feest, "Quhen thou makest a dynere or a supere, will thou nocht call thi freendis, nouthir thi brether, nouthir cusingis, nouthir nechbouris, nor riche men; or perauentur thai bid thee agane to the feest, and it be yoldin agane to thee. Bot quhen thou makis a feest, call pure men, febile, crukit, and blind, and thou salbe blessit, for thai haue nocht quharof to yeeld to thee; for it salbe yoldin to thee in the rising agane of iustmen."

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

Sunday, 25 August 2019

Mass readings in Scots: Twenty-first Sunday of the Year (Year C)

First reading

Isaiah 66: 18-21

[It's sae quo' the Lord:] [T]he folk an' their tongues, I sal gather them a'; an' eke they sal come, an' eke they sal see my gloiry an' a': An a sign I'se set on them for-thy; an' a wheen I sal sperfle out-by, till the natiouns: till Tarshish, till Pul, an' till Lud, wha can stent the bow; till Tubal, an' Javan, that's far i' the howe: wha ne'er heard ought o' my name, wha ne'er saw ought o' my fame; an' my gloir, they sal tell't till the hethen. An' yer brethren a', frae ilk natioun an' a', they sal fesh for Jehovah's hansel: on naigs, an' on sleds, an' on sweys; an' on mules, an' on gleg-gaen beiss; till my ain halie hill, quo' the Lord, at Jerusalem: like's the Sons o' Isr'el brought an offran themsel, on a weel-wushen sey, till the houss o' the Lord, till please him. Aye, an' it's e'en frae siclike the wale I sal hae, for priests an' for Levites, the Lord couth say.

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

Responsorial Psalm 116 (117) (resp. Mk 16:15)

Gang ye to a' the warld;

and preach the Gude-Tidins.

[Hallelujah!]

Gie laud till the Lord, O a' ye folk;

laud ye Himsel a' niebor kin:

Gang ye to a' the warld;

and preach the Gude-Tidins.

For heigh owre oursel, 's his gudeness gran';

an' the truth o' the Lord for ay sal win:

Gang ye to a' the warld;

and preach the Gude-Tidins.

[From Psalm 117, The Psalms: frae Hebrew intil Scottis P. Hately Waddell (1891) here; response from The New Testament in Braid Scots William Wye Smith (1904) here]

Second reading
Hebrews 12: 5-7, 11-13

And ye haue foryet the confort that spekis to you as to sonnis, sayand, My sonn, will thou nocht despise the teching of the Lord, nowthir be thou made wery, the quhile thou art chastisit of him. For the Lord chastisis him that he luvis; he scurgis euiry sonn that he resaues. Abide ye still in chastising; God proffris him to you as to sonnis. For quhat sonn is it, quham the fader chastisis nocht? And ilk chastising in present tyme semes to be nocht of ioy, bot of sorow; bot eftirwart it sal yelde fruit of richtuisnes maast peciabile to men exercit be it. For quhilk thing raase ye slaw handis, and kneis vnbundin, and mak ye richtfull steppis to your feet ; that naman halt and erre, bot mare be helit.

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

Gospel reading
Luke 13: 22-30

And [Jesus] was gaun on his way, throwe citie by citie, and village by village, teachin and journeyin on to Jerusalem. And ane says to him, “Lord! are thar but a wheen that wull be saved?” But he said to him, “Be ye warslin to win in at the stret yett! for mony, I say t’ye, wull fain be gaun in, and winna be able.

“Frae the time the gudeman may rise and steek the door -and ye begin to staun withoot, and to chap at the door, cryin, ‘Lord! open ye to us! and, answerin, he sal say, ‘I ken ye na, nor whaur ye are frae!’ “Than wull ye begin to say, 'We did eat and drink afore ye; and on oor causeys did ye teach!’ And he wull say, 'I tell ye, I ken-na whaur ye are frae! depairt frae me a' ye doers o’ unrighteousness!'

“Thar sal be maenin and girnin, whan ye see Abra’m and Isaac, and Jaucob, and a' the prophets, i’ the Kingdom o’ God, and ye yersels cuisten oot! Whan they sal hae come frae the east and frae the wast, and frae the north and the sooth; and sit doon i’ the Kingdom o' God!

"And tent ye! some are hinmaist that sal be foremaist; and some are foremaist that sal be hinmaist.”

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

Saturday, 17 August 2019

Mass readings in Scots: Twentieth Sunday of the Year (Year C)

First reading

Jeremiah 38: 4-6, 8-10

Then the rulers says tae the king, "Let Jeremiah be put tae death, because he is puttin fear intae the hearts o the men o war wha are still i the toun, an intae the hearts o the people, bi sayin such things tae thaim: this man is no workin for the well-bein o the people, but for their damage." Then Zedekiah the king says, "See, he is i yer hands": for the king wis no able tae dae anythin against thaim. So they took Jeremiah an put him intae the water-hole o Malchiah, the king's son, i the place o the armit watchmen: an they let Jeremiah doun wi cords. An i the hole thare wis na water, but wet yird: an Jeremiah went doun intae the wet yird.

Now it came tae the ears o Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, an unsexit servant i the king's house, that they haed put Jeremiah intae the water-hole; the king at thon time bein seatit i the doorway o Benjamin: and Ebed-Melech went oot from the king's house an says tae the king, "My lord the king, these men have done evil i aw they have done tae Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have put intae the water-hole; an he will come tae his death i the place where he is throuch neit o food: for thare is na more bread i the toun." Then the king gave orders tae Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying, "Tak wi ye three men from here an get Jeremiah oot o the water-hole before death overtakes him."

[Own translation, level 1. For methodology see here.]

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 39 (40): 2-4, 18, (resp. v.14)