Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Psalm of David.

29 Give unto Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty ones, give unto Jehovah glory and strength;

² Give unto Jehovah the glory of his name; worship Jehovah in holy splendour.

³ The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth,—Jehovah upon great waters.

⁴ The voice of Jehovah is powerful; the voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.

⁵ The voice of Jehovah breaketh cedars; yea, Jehovah breaketh the cedars of Lebanon:

⁶ And he maketh them to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young buffalo.

⁷ The voice of Jehovah cleaveth out flames of fire.

⁸ The voice of Jehovah shaketh the wilderness; Jehovah shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹ The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, and layeth bare the forests; and in his temple doth every one say, Glory!

¹⁰ Jehovah sitteth upon the flood; yea, Jehovah sitteth as king for ever.

¹¹ Jehovah will give strength unto his people; Jehovah will bless his people with peace.

² Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.

³ And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, that of the seventh month.

⁴ And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.

⁵ And they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent: the priests, the Levites, brought them up.

⁶ And king Solomon, and all the assembly of Israel, that were assembled to him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen which could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

⁷ And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah to its place, into the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim;

⁸ and the cherubim stretched forth [their] wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves above.

⁹ And the staves were long, so that the ends of the staves were seen outside the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there they are to this day.

¹⁰ There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made [a covenant] with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

¹¹ And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place (for all the priests that were present were hallowed without observing the courses;

¹² and the Levites the singers, all they of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, clad in byssus, with cymbals and lutes and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets),

¹³ —it came to pass when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one voice to be heard in praising and thanking Jehovah; and when they lifted up their voice with trumpets, and cymbals, and instruments of music, and praised Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever; that then the house, the house of Jehovah, was filled with a cloud,

¹⁴ and the priests could not stand to do their service because of the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah had filled the house of God.

¹⁹ Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision;

²⁰ but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

²¹ On account of these things the Jews, having seized me in the temple, attempted to lay hands on and destroy me.

²² Having therefore met with [the] help which is from God, I have stood firm unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying nothing else than those things which both the prophets and Moses have said should happen,

²³ [namely,] whether Christ should suffer; whether he first, through resurrection of [the] dead, should announce light both to the people and to the nations.

²⁴ And as he answered for his defence with these things, Festus says with a loud voice, Thou art mad, Paul; much learning turns thee to madness.

²⁵ But Paul said, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but utter words of truth and soberness;

²⁶ for the king is informed about these things, to whom also I speak with all freedom. For I am persuaded that of these things nothing is hidden from him; for this was not done in a corner.

²⁷ King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.

²⁸ And Agrippa [said] to Paul, In a little thou persuadest me to become a Christian.

²⁹ And Paul [said], I would to God, both in little and in much, that not only thou, but all who have heard me this day, should become such as *I* also am, except these bonds.