Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
150 Praise ye the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in the firmament of His power!
2 Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him according to His excellent greatness!
3 Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; praise Him with the psaltery and harp!
4 Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and organs!
5 Praise Him upon the loud cymbals; praise Him upon the high sounding cymbals!
6 Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord! Praise ye the Lord!
19 Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
20 And David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and took and went as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench as the host was going forth to the fight and was shouting for the battle.
21 For Israel and the Philistines had set up in battle array, army against army.
22 And David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran unto the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words; and David heard them.
24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were sore afraid.
25 And the men of Israel said, “Have ye seen this man who has come up? Surely, to defy Israel has he come up; and it shall be that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.”
26 And David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who killeth this Philistine and taketh away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
27 And the people answered him in this manner, saying, “So shall it be done to the man who killeth him.”
28 And Eliab, his eldest brother, heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David and he said, “Why camest thou down hither? And with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride and the willfulness of thine heart, for thou hast come down that thou mightest see the battle.”
29 And David said, “What have I now done? Is there not a cause?”
30 And he turned from him toward another and spoke in the same manner; and the people answered him again in the former manner.
31 And when the words were heard which David spoke, they recounted them before Saul; and he sent for him.
32 And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
17 Then the high priest rose up and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees); and they were filled with indignation,
18 and laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth and said,
20 “Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this Life.”
21 And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together with all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
22 But when the officers came and found them not in the prison, they returned and reported, saying,
23 “The prison truly found we shut with all safety and the keepers standing outside before the doors; but when we had opened them, we found no man within.”
24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they were in doubt about them as to where this would grow.
25 Then there came one and told them, saying, “Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”
26 Then the captain went with his officers and brought them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.
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