Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

107 A canticle of a psalm for David himself.

² My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready: I will sing, and will give praise, with my glory.

³ Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the morning early.

²¹ They that heard me, waited for my sentence, and being attentive held their peace at my counsel.

²² To my words they durst add nothing, and my speech dropped upon them.

²³ They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.

²⁴ If at any time I laughed on them, they believed not, and the light of my countenance fell not on earth.

²⁵ If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.

30 But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:

² The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

³ Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

⁴ And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

⁵ Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.

⁶ They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.

⁷ They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.

⁸ The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

⁹ Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.

¹⁰ They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.

¹¹ For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.

¹² At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves.

¹³ They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help.

¹⁴ They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.

¹⁵ I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.

21 And when it came to pass that, being parted from them, we set sail, we came with a straight course to Coos, and the day following to Rhodes, and from thence to Patara.

² And when we had found a ship sailing over to Phenice, we went aboard, and set forth.

³ And when we had discovered Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed into Syria, and came to Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.

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

⁵ And the days being expired, departing we went forward, they all bringing us on our way, with their wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and we prayed.

⁶ And when we had bid one another farewell, we took ship; and they returned home.

⁷ But we having finished the voyage by sea, from Tyre came down to Ptolemais: and saluting the brethren, we abode one day with them.

⁸ And the next day departing, we came to Caesarea. And entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we abode with him.

⁹ And he had four daughters, virgins, who did prophesy.

¹⁰ And as we tarried there for some days, there came from Judea a certain prophet, named Agabus.

¹¹ Who, when he was come to us, took Paul's girdle: and binding his own feet and hands, he said: Thus saith the Holy Ghost: The man whose girdle this is, the Jews shall bind in this manner in Jerusalem, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

¹² Which when we had heard, both we and they that were of that place, desired him that he would not go up to Jerusalem.

¹³ Then Paul answered, and said: What do you mean weeping and afflicting my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but to die also in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

¹⁴ And when we could not persuade him, we ceased, saying: The will of the Lord be done.

¹⁵ And after those days, being prepared, we went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁶ And there went also with us some of the disciples from Caesarea, bringing with them one Mnason a Cyprian, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.