Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ I will listen to what the LORD God will say. For He will speak peace to His people, and to His saints, so that they do not turn again to folly.

⁹ Surely, His salvation is near to those who fear Him, so that glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰ Mercy and truth shall meet, righteousness and peace shall kiss.

¹¹ Truth shall bud out of the Earth and righteousness shall look down from Heaven.

¹² Indeed, the LORD shall give good things and our land shall give her increase.

¹³ Righteousness shall go before Him and shall set her steps in the way. A prayer of David

18 After many days, the Word of the LORD came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the Earth.”

² And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. and a great famine was in Samaria.

³ And Ahab called Obadiah, the governor of his House. And Obadiah feared God greatly.

⁴ For when Jezebel destroyed the Prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred Prophets and hid them in a cave, by fifties. And he fed them with bread and water.

⁵ And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go into the land, to all the fountains of water, and to all the rivers, if so be that we may find grass to save the horses and the mules alive, lest we deprive the land of the beasts.”

⁶ And so, they divided the land between them, to walk through it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

⁷ And as Obadiah was on the road, behold, Elijah met him. And he knew him and fell on his face, and said, “Are not you my lord, Elijah?”

⁸ And he answered him, “Yes. Go tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah.’”

⁹ And he said, “What have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

¹⁰ “As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom or nation that they had not found you.

¹¹ “And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah.”’

¹² “And when I have gone from you, the Spirit of the LORD shall carry you into some place that I do not know. So, when I come and tell Ahab, if he cannot find you, then he will kill me! But I, your servant, fear the LORD from my youth.

¹³ “Was it not told to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the Prophets of the LORD? How I hid a hundred men of the LORD’s Prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?

¹⁴ “And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah,”’ so that he may kill me.’

¹⁵ And Elijah said, “As the LORD of Hosts lives, before Whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him this day.”

¹⁶ So, Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah.

¹⁰ And the brothers immediately sent away Paul and Silas to Berea by night. And when they had gotten there, they entered into the synagogue of the Jews.

¹¹ Also, these were more noble men than those at Thessalonica. They received the Word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

¹² Therefore many of them believed, and honorable Greek women, and not a few men.

¹³ But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that the Word of God was also preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also, and moved the people.

¹⁴ And immediately the brothers sent Paul away, to go to the sea. But Silas and Timothy remained there.

¹⁵ And those who conducted Paul brought him to Athens. And when they had received a commandment for Silas and Timothy to come to him at once, they departed.