Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹ ¶ O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever.

² Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy

³ and gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

²³ ¶ Those that go down to the sea in ships that do work in many waters,

²⁴ these have seen the works of the LORD and his wonders in the deep.

²⁵ For he commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

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

²⁷ They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man, and all of their knowledge is of no avail.

²⁸ Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivers them out of their afflictions.

²⁹ He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

³⁰ Then they are glad because they are at rest; so he brings them into the haven of his will.

³¹ Oh that men would praise the LORD for his mercy and for his wonderful works unto the sons of Adam!

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

29 ¶ Moreover, 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 upon my head, and by its light I walked in the darkness;

⁴ as I was in the days of my youth, when God was familiar in my tent;

⁵ when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

⁶ when I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil!

⁷ ¶ When I went out to the gate to judgment, when I had my seat prepared in the plaza!

⁸ The young men would see me and hide themselves, and the aged would arise and stand.

⁹ The princes would refrain from talking and lay their hand on their mouth;

¹⁰ the voice of the principals would not be noticed, and their tongue would cleave to the roof of their mouth.

¹¹ When the ears that heard me, called me blessed; and when the eyes that saw me, gave witness to me:

¹² because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless who had no one to help him.

¹³ The blessing of the one that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me as a robe; and my diadem was judgment.

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy; and the cause which I did not know I searched out.

¹⁷ And I broke the fangs of the wicked and caused their teeth to release the prey.

¹⁸ ¶ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

¹⁹ My root is spread out by the waters, and the dew shall remain upon my branches.

²⁰ My glory is renewed with me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.

20 ¶ And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called the disciples and embraced them and departed to go into Macedonia.

² And when he had gone over those parts and had exhorted them with much word, he came into Greece

³ and there abode three months. And when the Jews laid in wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he took counsel to return through Macedonia.

⁴ And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe and Timothy; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

⁵ These going before tarried for us at Troas.

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

⁷ ¶ And the first of the sabbaths, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart the next day, and continued his word until midnight.

⁸ And there were many lamps in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.

⁹ And a certain young man named Eutychus sat in a window, being fallen into a deep sleep; and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep and fell down from the third loft and was taken up dead.

¹⁰ And Paul went down and fell on him and, embracing him, said, Trouble not yourselves, for his soul is still in him.

¹¹ When he therefore was come up again and had broken bread and eaten and talked a long while, even until day break, thus he departed.

¹² And they took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.

¹³ ¶ And we went into the ship and sailed unto Assos, intending to take in Paul there, for so he had determined that he should go by land.

¹⁴ And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in and came to Mitylene.

¹⁵ And we sailed from there and came the next day over against Chios, and the next day we arrived in port at Samos; and having rested in Trogyllium, the next day we came to Miletus.

¹⁶ For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, not to detain himself in Asia, for he hasted to keep the day of Pentecost, if it were possible for him, in Jerusalem.