Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

6 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chastise me in Your wrath.

² Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am weak. O LORD, heal me, for my bones are vexed.

³ My soul is also very troubled. But LORD, how long will You delay?

⁴ Return, O LORD. Deliver my soul. Save me for Your mercy’s sake.

⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of You. In the grave, who shall praise You?

⁶ I fainted in my mourning. Every night I cause my bed to swim, and water my couch with my tears.

⁷ My eye is dimmed for grief, and sunk in because of all my enemies.

⁸ Away from me all you workers of iniquity. For the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

⁹ The LORD has heard my petition. The LORD will receive my prayer.

¹⁰ All my enemies shall be confounded and very vexed. They shall be turned back and put to shame suddenly. Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush, the son of Benjamin.

26 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father, Amaziah.

² He built Eloth and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.

³ Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign. And he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.

⁴ And he did uprightly in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

⁵ And he sought God in the days of Zechariah (who understood the visions of God). And when he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.

⁶ For he went forth and fought against the Philistines and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines.

⁷ And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who dwelt in Gur Baal and Hammeunim.

⁸ And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah. And his name spread to the entrance of Egypt. For he did most valiantly.

⁹ Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate and at the valley gate and at the corner and made them strong.

¹⁰ And he built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns; for he had many cattle, both in the valleys and plains, and plowmen and dressers of vines in the mountains and in Carmel. For he loved the land.

¹¹ Uzziah also had an army of fighting men who went out to war by bands, according to the count of their number prepared by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.

¹² The whole number of the chief of the families of the valiant men was two thousand six hundred.

¹³ And under their hand, the army for war was three hundred seven thousand, and five hundred who fought valiantly to help the king against the enemy.

¹⁴ And throughout all the camp, Uzziah prepared shields and spears and helmets and armor and bows and stones to sling.

¹⁵ He also made engines in Jerusalem, devised by cunning men, to be upon the towers and upon the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far and wide, because God helped him marvelously until he was mighty.

¹⁶ But after he became strong, his heart was lifted up, to his destruction. For he transgressed against the LORD his God and went into the Temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the Altar of incense.

¹⁷ And Azariah the Priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of the LORD, valiant men.

¹⁸ And they stood before Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to offer incense. Go forth from the Sanctuary. For you have transgressed. And you shall have no honor from the LORD God.”

¹⁹ Then Uzziah was angry. And he had incense in his hand, to burn it. And while he was angry with the priests, leprosy rose up in his forehead in front of the priests, in the House of the LORD, beside the incense Altar.

²⁰ And when Azariah, the High Priest, looked upon him with all the priests, behold, he was leprous in his forehead. And they had him quickly depart from there. And he was compelled to go out, because the LORD had stricken him.

²¹ And Uzziah the king was a leper until the day of his death, and dwelt as a leper in a separate house, because he was cut off from the House of the LORD. And Jotham, his son, ruled over the king’s House and judged the people of the land.

3 Now Peter and John went up together into the Temple, at the ninth hour of prayer.

² And a certain man, who was a cripple from his mother’s womb, was carried; whom they laid daily at the Temple gate called ‘Beautiful’ to ask alms of those who entered into the Temple.

³ Seeing Peter and John about to enter into the Temple, he asked to receive alms.

⁴ And Peter, fixing his gaze on him with John, said, “Look at us.”

⁵ And he stared at them, trusting to receive something from them.

⁶ Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I have, that give I you. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”

⁷ And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up. And immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

⁸ And he leaped up, stood, and walked; and entered into the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

⁹ And all the people saw him walking and praising God.

¹⁰ And they knew that it was him who sat for the alms at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple. And they were amazed, and very astonished at what had happened to him.