Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁹ Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.

¹⁰ For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.

¹¹ More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.

¹² I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.

¹³ For I have heard the slander of many—terror on every side—when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

¹⁴ But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God.

¹⁵ My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors.

¹⁶ Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness.

¹¹ And Samuel said to Jesse, Are these all the young men? And he said, There is yet the youngest remaining, and behold, he is feeding the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and fetch him; for we will not sit at table till he come hither.

¹² And he sent and brought him in. And he was ruddy, and besides of a lovely countenance and beautiful appearance. And Jehovah said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.

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

1 Paul and Timotheus, bondmen of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with [the] overseers and ministers;

² grace to you, and peace from God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

³ I thank my God for my whole remembrance of you,

⁴ constantly in my every supplication, making the supplication for you all with joy,

⁵ because of your fellowship with the gospel, from the first day until now;

⁶ having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day:

⁷ as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all, because ye have *me* in your hearts, and that both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are all participators in my grace.

⁸ For God is my witness how I long after you all in [the] bowels of Christ Jesus.

⁹ And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence,

¹⁰ that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,

¹¹ being complete as regards the fruit of righteousness, which [is] by Jesus Christ, to God's glory and praise.