Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

61 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David.

² Shall not my soul be subject to God? for from him is my salvation.

³ For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be moved no more.

⁴ How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence.

⁵ But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.

⁶ But be thou, O my soul, subject to God: for from him is my patience.

⁷ For he is my God and my saviour: he is my helper, I shall not be moved.

⁸ In God is my salvation and my glory: he is the God of my help, and my hope is in God.

⁹ Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts before him. God is our helper for ever.

¹⁰ But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

¹¹ Trust not in iniquity, and cover not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.

¹² God hath spoken once, these two things have I heard, that power belongeth to God,

¹³ And mercy to thee, O Lord; for thou wilt render to every man according to his works.

¹⁵ And returning to the man of God with all his train, be came, and stood before him, and said: In truth, I know there is no other God in all the earth, but only in Israel: I beseech thee therefore take a blessing of thy servant.

¹⁶ But he answered: As the Lord liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And when he pressed him, he still refused.

¹⁷ And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I beseech thee, grant to me thy servant, to take from hence two mules' burden of earth: for thy servant will not henceforth offer holocaust, or victim, to other gods, but to the Lord.

¹⁸ But there is only this, for which thou shalt entreat the Lord for thy servant, when my master goeth into the temple of Remmon, to worship: and he leaneth upon my hand, if I bow down in the temple of Remmon, when he boweth down in the same place, that the Lord pardon me thy servant for this thing.

¹⁹ And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him in the springtime of the earth.

²⁴ As he spoke these things, and made his answer, Festus said with a loud voice: Paul, thou art beside thyself: much learning doth make thee mad.

²⁵ And Paul said: I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but I speak words of truth and soberness.

²⁶ For the king knoweth of these things, to whom also I speak with confidence. For I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him. For neither was any of these things done in a corner.

²⁷ Believest thou the prophets, O king Agrippa? I know that thou believest.

²⁸ And Agrippa said to Paul: In a little thou persuadest me to become a Christian.

²⁹ And Paul said: I would to God, that both in a little and in much, not only thou, but also all that hear me, this day, should become such as I also am, except these bands.