Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

86 For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:

² The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

³ Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

⁴ I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

⁵ Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

⁶ The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

⁷ The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

²⁷ And as they were going down in the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul: Speak to the servant to go before us, and pass on: but stand thou still a while, that I may tell thee the word of the Lord.

10 And Samuel took a little vial of oil and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said: Behold, the Lord hath anointed thee to be prince over his inheritance, and thou shalt deliver his people out of the hands of their enemies, that are round about them. And this shall be a sign unto thee, that God hath anointed thee to be prince.

² When thou shalt depart from me this day, thou shalt find two men by the sepulchre of Rachel in the borders of Benjamin to the south, and they shall say to thee: The asses are found which thou wentest to seek: and thy father thinking no more of the asses is concerned for you, and saith: What shall I do for my son?

³ And when thou shalt depart from thence, and go farther on, and shalt come to the oak of Thabor, there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine.

⁴ And they will salute thee, and will give thee two loaves, and thou shalt take them at their hand.

⁵ After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is: and when thou shalt be come there into the city, thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place, with a psaltery and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp before them, and they shall be prophesying.

⁶ And the spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be changed into another man.

⁷ When therefore these signs shall happen to thee, do whatsoever thy hand shall find, for the Lord is with thee.

⁸ And thou shalt go down before me to Galgal, (for I will come down to thee,) that thou mayest offer an oblation, and sacrifice victims of peace: seven days shalt thou wait, O till I come to thee, and I will shew thee what thou art to do.

¹⁴ Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?

¹⁵ And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever?

¹⁶ And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God saith: I will dwell in them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹⁷ Wherefore, Go out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

¹⁸ And I will receive you; and I will be a Father to you; and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

7 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.