Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the Overcomer on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song.

¹ ¶ God be merciful unto us and bless us and cause his face to shine upon us. Selah.

² That thy way may be known upon the earth, thy saving health among all the Gentiles.

³ Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee.

⁴ O let the Gentiles be glad and sing for joy, for thou shalt judge the people righteously and shepherd the Gentiles upon the earth. Selah.

⁵ Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee.

⁶ Then shall the earth bring forth her fruit, and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

⁷ God shall bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

¹⁵ ¶ Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory; where is thy zeal and thy strength, the feeling of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

¹⁶ Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel not acknowledge us; thou, O LORD, art our father; our everlasting Redeemer is thy name.

¹⁷ O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways? Hast thou hardened our heart to thy fear? Return for thy slaves, for the tribes of thine inheritance.

¹⁸ The people of thy holiness have possessed the promised land but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

¹⁹ We have been like those over whom thou didst never rule, who were never called by thy name.

¹⁹ ¶ And certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he was dead.

²⁰ But as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up and came into the city, and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

²¹ And when they had preached the gospel to that city and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra and to Iconium and Antioch,

²² confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to remain in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

²³ And having ordained elders for them in every congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they believed.

²⁴ And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.

²⁵ And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia

²⁶ and from there sailed to Antioch, where they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.

²⁷ And when they were come and had gathered the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} together, they related what great things God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

²⁸ And there they abode a long time with the disciples.