Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

107 Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

² Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the oppressor,

³ And gathered out of the countries, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea.

²³ They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters,

²⁴ These see the works of Jehovah, and his wonders in the deep.

²⁵ For he speaketh, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof:

²⁶ They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble;

²⁷ They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:

²⁸ Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses;

²⁹ He maketh the storm a calm, and the waves thereof are still:

³⁰ And they rejoice because they are quiet; and he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

³¹ Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;

³² Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the session of the elders.

29 And Job continued his parable and said,

² Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;

³ When his lamp shone over my head, [and] by his light I walked through darkness;

⁴ As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel of +God was over my tent,

⁵ When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;

⁶ When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! …

⁷ When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,

⁸ The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose [and] stood up;

⁹ Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;

¹⁰ The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.

¹¹ When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me, and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me;

¹² For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.

¹³ The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;

¹⁷ And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

¹⁸ And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;

¹⁹ My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;

²⁰ My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.

20 But after the tumult had ceased, Paul having called the disciples to [him] and embraced [them], went away to go to Macedonia.

² And having passed through those parts, and having exhorted them with much discourse, he came to Greece.

³ And having spent three months [there], a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, [the] resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia.

⁴ And there accompanied him as far as Asia, Sopater [son] of Pyrrhus, a Berean; and of Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius and Timotheus of Derbe, and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

⁵ These going before waited for us in Troas;

⁶ but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and we came to them to Troas in five days, where we spent seven days.

⁷ And the first day of the week, we being assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed to them, about to depart on the morrow. And he prolonged the discourse till midnight.

⁸ And there were many lights in the upper room where we were assembled.

⁹ And a certain youth, by name Eutychus, sitting at the window-opening, overpowered by deep sleep, while Paul discoursed very much at length, having been overpowered by the sleep, fell from the third story down to the bottom, and was taken up dead.

¹⁰ But Paul descending fell upon him, and enfolding [him] [in his arms], said, Be not troubled, for his life is in him.

¹¹ And having gone up, and having broken the bread, and eaten, and having long spoken until daybreak, so he went away.

¹² And they brought [away] the boy alive, and were no little comforted.

¹³ And we, having gone before on board ship, sailed off to Assos, going to take in Paul there; for so he had directed, he himself being about to go on foot.

¹⁴ And when he met with us at Assos, having taken him on board, we came to Mitylene;

¹⁵ and having sailed thence, on the morrow arrived opposite Chios, and the next day put in at Samos; and having stayed at Trogyllium, the next day we came to Miletus:

¹⁶ for Paul thought it desirable to sail by Ephesus, so that he might not be made to spend time in Asia; for he hastened, if it was possible for him, to be the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.