Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

[A Psalm] of David; when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.

34 I will bless Jehovah at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

² My soul shall make its boast in Jehovah: the meek shall hear, and rejoice.

³ Magnify Jehovah with me, and let us exalt his name together.

⁴ I sought Jehovah, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

⁵ They looked unto him, and were enlightened, and their faces were not confounded.

⁶ This afflicted one called, and Jehovah heard [him], and saved him out of all his troubles.

⁷ The angel of Jehovah encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

⁸ Taste and see that Jehovah is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him!

2 And the days of David were at hand that he should die; and he enjoined Solomon his son saying,

² I go the way of all the earth: be of good courage therefore, and be a man;

³ and keep the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest and whithersoever thou turnest thyself;

⁴ that Jehovah may confirm his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If thy sons take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee, said he, a man upon the throne of Israel.

⁵ And thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and upon his sandals that were on his feet.

⁶ And thou shalt do according to thy wisdom, and not let his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

⁷ But shew kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table; for so they came up to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.

⁸ And behold, there is with thee Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day that I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Jehovah saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

⁹ And now hold him not guiltless; for thou art a wise man, and thou shalt know what thou oughtest to do to him; but bring his hoar head down to Sheol with blood.

⁷ Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

⁸ For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

⁹ Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask of him a loaf of bread, will give him a stone;

¹⁰ and if he ask a fish, will give him a serpent?

¹¹ If therefore *ye*, being wicked, know [how] to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?