Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

135 Hallelujah! Praise the name of Jehovah; praise, ye servants of Jehovah,

² Ye that stand in the house of Jehovah, in the courts of the house of our God.

³ Praise ye Jah; for Jehovah is good: sing psalms unto his name; for it is pleasant.

⁴ For Jah hath chosen Jacob unto himself, Israel for his own possession.

⁵ For *I* know that Jehovah is great, and our Lord is above all gods.

⁶ Whatsoever Jehovah pleased, he hath done in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all deeps;

⁷ Who causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; who maketh lightnings for the rain; who bringeth the wind out of his treasuries:

⁸ Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast;

⁹ Who sent signs and miracles into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants;

¹⁰ Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings,

¹¹ Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan;

¹² And gave their land for an inheritance, an inheritance unto Israel his people.

¹³ Thy name, O Jehovah, is for ever; thy memorial, O Jehovah, from generation to generation.

¹⁴ For Jehovah will judge his people, and will repent in favour of his servants.

¹⁵ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:

¹⁶ They have a mouth, and they speak not; eyes have they, and they see not;

¹⁷ They have ears, and they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouth.

¹⁸ They that make them are like unto them,—every one that confideth in them.

¹⁹ House of Israel, bless ye Jehovah; house of Aaron, bless ye Jehovah;

²⁰ House of Levi, bless ye Jehovah; ye that fear Jehovah, bless Jehovah.

²¹ Blessed be Jehovah out of Zion, who dwelleth at Jerusalem! Hallelujah!

14 And there came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.

² And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

³ Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

⁴ Therefore speak to them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet, I Jehovah will answer him according to this, according to the multitude of his idols:

⁵ that I may take the house of Israel by their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

⁶ Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

⁷ For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet to inquire of me by him, I Jehovah will answer him by myself;

⁸ and I will set my face against that man, and will make him desolate, [so that he shall be] for a sign and for proverbs, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

⁹ And if the prophet be enticed and shall speak a word, I Jehovah have enticed that prophet; and I will stretch out my hand against him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

¹⁰ And they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of the inquirer;

¹¹ that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither make themselves any more unclean with all their transgressions; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, saith the Lord Jehovah.

3 And Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, [which is] the ninth [hour];

² and a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they placed every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who were going into the temple;

³ who, seeing Peter and John about to enter into the temple, asked to receive alms.

⁴ And Peter, looking stedfastly upon him with John, said, Look on us.

⁵ And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something from them.

⁶ But Peter said, Silver and gold I have not; but what I have, this give I to thee: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean rise up and walk.

⁷ And having taken hold of him [by] the right hand he raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones were made strong.

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

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

¹⁰ and they recognised him, that it was *he* who sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.