Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the Overcomer upon Neginah, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

² From the end of the earth I will cry unto thee when my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

³ For thou hast been a shelter for me and a strong tower from the enemy.

⁴ I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever; I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

⁵ ¶ For thou, O God, hast heard my vows; thou hast given an inheritance to those that fear thy name.

⁶ Thou wilt add days upon days unto the king’s life; his years shall be from generation to generation.

⁷ He shall abide before God for ever; He is aware of mercy and truth which preserve him.

⁸ So I will sing thy name for ever, performing my vows each day.

¹⁵ ¶ And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came and stood before him, and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing from thy slave.

¹⁶ But he said, As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

¹⁷ Then Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy slave two mules’ burden of earth? For from now on thy slave will offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.

¹⁸ In this thing may the LORD pardon thy slave, that when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, if I also bow myself in the house of Rimmon, that the LORD pardon thy slave in this thing, if I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon.

¹⁹ And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.

²⁴ ¶ And as he spoke these things and answered for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.

²⁵ But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak forth words of truth and temperance.

²⁶ For the king knows of these things, before whom I also speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him, for this thing was not done in a corner.

²⁷ King Agrippa, dost thou believe the prophets? I know that thou believest.

²⁸ Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

²⁹ And Paul said, I desire before God that by little or by much, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were such as I am, except these bonds.