4 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! Thou hast set me at large when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

² O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? How long will ye love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

³ But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for Himself; the Lord will hear when I call unto Him.

⁴ Stand in awe, and sin not; commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah

⁵ Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.

⁶ There are many that say, “Who will show us any good?” Lord, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us.

⁷ Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time when their corn and wine increased.

⁸ I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep; for Thou Lord only, makest me dwell in safety.

5 Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my meditation.

² Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King and my God, for unto Thee will I pray.

³ My voice shalt Thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee and will look up.

⁴ For Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; neither shall evil dwell with Thee.

⁵ The foolish shall not stand in Thy sight; Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

⁶ Thou shalt destroy them that speak lies; the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

⁷ But as for me, I will come into Thy house in the multitude of Thy mercy, and in Thy fear will I worship toward Thy holy temple.

⁸ Lead me, O Lord, in Thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make Thy way straight before my face.

⁹ For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is exceeding wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.

¹⁰ Destroy Thou them, O God! Let them fall by their own counsels. Cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against Thee.

¹¹ But let all those that put their trust in Thee rejoice; let them ever shout for joy, because Thou defendest them; let them also that love Thy name be joyful in Thee.

¹² For Thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favor wilt Thou compass him about as with a shield.

6 O Lord, rebuke me not in Thine anger, neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure.

² Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are vexed.

³ My soul is also sore vexed, but Thou, O Lord, how long?

⁴ Return, O Lord, deliver my soul! O save me for Thy mercies’ sake!

⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of Thee; in the grave who shall give Thee thanks?

⁶ I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed to swim, I water my couch with my tears.

⁷ Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

⁸ Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity, for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

⁹ The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer.

¹⁰ Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sorely vexed; let them turn back and be put to shame suddenly.

¹⁶ Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

¹⁷ Therefore he disputed in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the marketplace daily with those who met with him.

¹⁸ Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics encountered him. And some said, “What will this babbler say?” And some others said, “He seemeth to be a proclaimer of strange gods,” because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection.

¹⁹ And they took him and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is whereof thou speakest?

²⁰ For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears, and we would know therefore what these things mean.”

²¹ (For all the Athenians and strangers who were there spent their time in nothing else than either telling or hearing some new thing.)

²² Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ Hill and said, “Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

²³ For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription: ‘To the Unknown God’. Whom therefore ye worship in ignorance, Him I declare unto you.

²⁴ God who made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

²⁵ Neither is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things.

²⁶ And He hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation,

²⁷ that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might feel after Him and find Him, though He be not far from every one of us.

²⁸ For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as also certain of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

²⁹ “For inasmuch, then, as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone, graven by art and of man’s devising.

³⁰ The times of this ignorance God overlooked, but now He commandeth all men everywhere to repent,

³¹ because He hath appointed a Day in which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained. Of this He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead.”

³² But when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked and others said, “We will hear thee again on this matter.”

³³ So Paul departed from among them.

³⁴ However, certain men cleaved unto him and believed, among whom were Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.