Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
My Help Comes from Yahweh
A Song of Ascents.
11 “O (A)afflicted one, storm-tossed, and (B)not comforted,
Behold, I will lay your stones in antimony,
And your foundations I will (C)set in [a](D)sapphires.
12 Moreover, I will make your battlements of [b]rubies,
And your gates of [c]crystal,
And your entire [d]wall of [e]precious stones.
13 (E)All your sons will be [f]taught of Yahweh;
And the peace of your sons will be (F)great.
14 In (G)righteousness you will be established;
You will be far from (H)oppression, for you will (I)not fear,
And from (J)terror, for it will not come near you.
15 If anyone fiercely attacks you it will not be from Me.
(K)Whoever attacks you will fall because of you.
16 Behold, I Myself have created the craftsman who blows the fire of coals
And brings out a weapon for its work;
And I have created the bringer of ruin to wreak destruction.
17 (L)No weapon that is formed against you will succeed;
And (M)every tongue that [g]accuses you in judgment you will condemn.
This is the inheritance of the [h]slaves of Yahweh,
And their (N)righteousness is from Me,” declares Yahweh.
22 So Paul stood in the midst of the [a]Areopagus and said, “Men of (A)Athens, I observe that you are very (B)religious in all respects. 23 For while I was passing through and examining the (C)objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what (D)you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. 24 (E)The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is (F)Lord of heaven and earth, does not (G)dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, (H)as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and (I)He made from one man every nation of mankind to inhabit all the face of the earth, having (J)determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, (K)though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for (L)in Him we live and move and [b]exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His offspring.’ 29 Being then the offspring of God, we (M)ought not to suppose that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the craft and thought of man. 30 Therefore having (N)overlooked (O)the times of ignorance, God is (P)now commanding men that everyone everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed (Q)a day in which (R)He will judge [c](S)the world in righteousness [d]through a Man whom He (T)determined, having furnished proof to all [e]by (U)raising Him from the dead.”
32 Now when they heard about (V)the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, “We shall hear you [f]again concerning this.” 33 In this way, Paul went out of their midst. 34 But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the (W)Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
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