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.

²¹ They would hear me and wait, and keep silent at my counsel.

²² After my words they would not reply, but my reason 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 at them, they did not believe it; and they did not cast down the light of my countenance.

²⁵ I approved their way and sat at the head and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.

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

² For, unto what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom time was lost?

³ For want and famine they walked alone; fleeing into solitude, to the dark place, desolate and waste.

⁴ Who cut up mallows among the bushes and juniper roots for their food.

⁵ They were driven forth from among men (they cried after them as after a thief).

⁶ They dwelt in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

⁷ Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

⁸ They were sons of fools and men without names; they were lower than the earth.

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

¹⁰ They abhor me, they distance themselves from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.

¹¹ Because God has loosed my cord and afflicted me, they have also gone out of control before my face.

¹² Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

¹³ They cast down my path, they took advantage of my calamity, against them there was no helper.

¹⁴ They came in as through a wide breach; they were stirred up because of my calamity.

¹⁵ ¶ They have loosed terrors upon me; they fought my will as the wind and my saving health as a cloud that passes.

21 ¶ And it came to pass that after we had left them and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the day following unto Rhodes, and from there unto Patara;

² and finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard and set forth.

³ Now when we had sighted Cyprus, we left it on the left hand and sailed into Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload her cargo.

⁴ And finding the disciples, we tarried there seven days, who said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

⁵ And when we had accomplished those days, we departed; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, until we were out of the city; and we knelt down on the shore and prayed.

⁶ And when we had taken our leave one of another, we embarked on the ship, and they returned home again.

⁷ And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais and saluted the brethren and abode with them one day.

⁸ ¶ And the next day Paul and those of us that were with him departed and came unto Caesarea; and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and abode with him.

⁹ And he had four daughters, virgins, who prophesied.

¹⁰ And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.

¹¹ And when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle and bound his own hands and feet and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owns this girdle and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

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

¹³ Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁴ And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, Let the will of the Lord be done.

¹⁵ ¶ And after those days we packed our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁶ There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.