Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

103 For David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my God, thou art exceedingly great. Thou hast put on praise and beauty:

² And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion:

³ Who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds.

⁴ Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire.

⁵ Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.

⁶ The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand.

⁷ At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear.

⁸ The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which thou hast founded for them.

¹² Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had built before the porch,

¹³ That every day an offering might be made on it according to the ordinance of Moses, in the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the festival days three times a year, that is to say, in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

¹⁴ And he appointed according to the order of David his father the offices of the priests in their ministries: and the Levites in their order to give praise, and minister before the priests according to the duty of every day: and the porters in their divisions by gate and gate: for so David the man of God had commanded.

¹⁵ And the priests and Levites departed not from the king's commandments, as to any thing that he had commanded, and as to the keeping of the treasures.

17 And when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.

² And Paul, according to his custom, went in unto them; and for three sabbath days he reasoned with them out of the scriptures:

³ Declaring and insinuating that the Christ was to suffer, and to rise again from the dead; and that this is Jesus Christ, whom I preach to you.

⁴ And some of them believed, and were associated to Paul and Silas; and of those that served God, and of the Gentiles a great multitude, and of noble women not a few.

⁵ But the Jews, moved with envy, and taking unto them some wicked men of the vulgar sort, and making a tumult, set the city in an uproar; and besetting Jason's house, sought to bring them out unto the people.

⁶ And not finding them, they drew Jason and certain brethren to the rulers of the city, crying: They that set the city in an uproar, are come hither also;

⁷ Whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

⁸ And they stirred up the people, and the rulers of the city hearing these things,

⁹ And having taken satisfaction of Jason and of the rest, they let them go.