Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁹ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble. My eye, my soul and my belly are consumed with grief.

¹⁰ For my life is wasted with heaviness, and my years with mourning. My strength fails because of my pain; and my bones are consumed.

¹¹ I was a reproach among all my enemies — but especially among my neighbors — and a fear to my acquaintances. Who, seeing me in the street, fled from me.

¹² I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

¹³ For I have heard the railing of great men. Fear was on every side, while they conspired together against me and consulted to take my life.

¹⁴ But I trusted in You, O LORD. I said, “You are my God.”

¹⁵ My times are in Your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

¹⁶ Make Your face to shine upon Your servant. Save me through Your mercy.

¹¹ Finally, Samuel said to Jesse, “Are there no more children?” And he said, “There remains yet a little one who keeps the sheep.” Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down until he has come here.”

¹² And he sent and brought him in. And he was ruddy with beautiful eyes, and handsome. And the LORD said, “Arise! Anoint him. For this is he.”

¹³ Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren. And the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

1 Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the elders and deacons:

² Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ I thank my God with every remembrance of you,

⁴ (always, in all my prayers for all you, praying with joy),

⁵ because of the fellowship which you have in the Gospel, from the first day until now.

⁶ And I am persuaded of this same thing: that He who has begun this good work in you will perfect it until the Day of Jesus Christ;

⁷ just as it is right for me to think this way of you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel you all were fellow partakers of grace with me.

⁸ For God is my witness how I long after you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.

⁹ And this I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

¹⁰ so that you may test those things which are better; that you may be pure and without offense until the Day of Christ,

¹¹ filled with the fruit of righteousness which is by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.