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.

²¹ Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:

²² After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;

²³ And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

²⁴ [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.

²⁵ I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.

30 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

² Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?

³ Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

⁴ They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

⁵ They are driven forth from among [men]—they cry after them as after a thief—

⁶ To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:

⁷ They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:

⁸ Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.

⁹ And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.

¹⁰ They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.

¹¹ For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.

¹² At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;

¹³ They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;

¹⁴ They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.

¹⁵ Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.

21 And when, having got away from them, we at last sailed away, we came by a direct course to Cos, and on the morrow to Rhodes, and thence to Patara.

² And having found a ship passing over into Phoenicia, we went on board and sailed;

³ and having sighted Cyprus, and left it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria, and made the land at Tyre, for there the ship was to discharge her cargo.

⁴ And having found out the disciples, we remained there seven days; who said to Paul by the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.

⁵ But when we had completed the days, we set out and took our journey, all of them accompanying us, with wives and children, till [we were] out of the city. And kneeling down upon the shore we prayed.

⁶ And having embraced one another, we went on board ship, and they returned home.

⁷ And we, having completed the voyage, arrived from Tyre at Ptolemais, and having saluted the brethren, we remained one day with them.

⁸ And leaving on the morrow, we came to Caesarea; and entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was of the seven, we abode with him.

⁹ Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

¹⁰ And as we stayed there many days, a certain man, by name Agabus, a prophet, came down from Judaea,

¹¹ and coming to us and taking the girdle of Paul, and having bound his own hands and feet, said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose this girdle is shall the Jews thus bind in Jerusalem, and deliver him up into the hands of [the] Gentiles.

¹² And when we heard these things, both we and those of the place besought [him] not to go up to Jerusalem.

¹³ But Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for *I* am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁴ And when he would not be persuaded, we were silent, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

¹⁵ And after these days, having got our effects ready, we went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁶ And [some] of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing [with them] a certain Mnason, a Cyprian, an old disciple, with whom we were to lodge.