Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm: a Song.

67 God be gracious unto us, and bless us, [and] cause his face to shine upon us; Selah,

² That thy way may be known upon earth, thy salvation among all nations.

³ Let the peoples praise thee, O God, let all the peoples praise thee.

⁴ Let the nations rejoice and sing for joy: for thou wilt judge the peoples equitably; and the nations upon earth, thou wilt guide them. Selah.

⁵ Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee.

⁶ The earth will yield her increase; God, our God, will bless us:

⁷ God will bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

¹⁵ Look down from the heavens, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory! Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy tender mercies? Are they restrained toward me?

¹⁶ For thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer, from everlasting, is thy name.

¹⁷ Why, O Jehovah, hast thou made us to err from thy ways, hast hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

¹⁸ Thy holy people have possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

¹⁹ We have become [like those] over whom thou never barest rule, those not called by thy name.

¹⁹ But there came Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died.

²⁰ But while the disciples encircled him, he rose up and entered into the city. And on the morrow he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.

²¹ And having announced the glad tidings to that city, and having made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,

²² establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

²³ And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

²⁴ And having passed through Pisidia they came to Pamphylia,

²⁵ and having spoken the word in Perga, they came down to Attalia;

²⁶ and thence they sailed away to Antioch, whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

²⁷ And having arrived, and having brought together the assembly, they related to them all that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

²⁸ And they stayed no little time with the disciples.