Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁰ Confess Thee O Jehovah, do all Thy works, And Thy saints do bless Thee.

¹¹ The honour of Thy kingdom they tell, And [of] Thy might they speak,

¹² To make known to sons of men His mighty acts, The honour of the majesty of His kingdom.

¹³ Thy kingdom [is] a kingdom of all ages, And Thy dominion [is] in all generations.

¹⁴ Jehovah is supporting all who are falling, And raising up all who are bowed down.

¹⁵ The eyes of all unto Thee do look, And Thou art giving to them their food in its season,

¹⁶ Opening Thy hand, and satisfying The desire of every living thing.

¹⁷ Righteous [is] Jehovah in all His ways, And kind in all His works.

¹⁸ Near [is] Jehovah to all those calling Him, To all who call Him in truth.

¹⁹ And he goeth thence, and findeth Elisha son of Shaphat, and he is plowing; twelve yoke [are] before him, and he [is] with the twelfth; and Elijah passeth over unto him, and casteth his robe upon him,

²⁰ and he forsaketh the oxen, and runneth after Elijah, and saith, `Let me give a kiss, I pray thee, to my father and to my mother, and I go after thee.' And he saith to him, `Go, turn back, for what have I done to thee?'

²¹ And he turneth back from after him, and taketh the yoke of oxen, and sacrificeth it, and with instruments of the oxen he hath boiled their flesh, and giveth to the people, and they eat, and he riseth, and goeth after Elijah, and serveth him.

⁹ Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

¹⁰ to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

¹¹ in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

¹² Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,

¹³ who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate [us] into the reign of the Son of His love,

¹⁴ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,