Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

146 Praise ye the Lord, because psalm is good: to our God be joyful and comely praise.

² The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel.

³ Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.

⁴ Who telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names.

⁵ Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.

⁶ The Lord lifteth up the meek, and bringeth the wicked down even to the ground.

⁷ Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp.

⁸ Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the service of men.

⁹ Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

¹⁰ He shall not delight in the strength of the horse: nor take pleasure in the legs of a man.

¹¹ The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy.

29 And thou shalt also do this, that they may be consecrated to me in priesthood. Take a calf from the herd, and two rams without blemish,

² And unleavened bread, and a cake without leaven, tempered with oil, wafers also unleavened anointed with oil: thou shalt make them all of wheaten flour.

³ And thou shalt put them in a basket and offer them: and the calf and the two rams.

⁴ And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. And when thou hast washed the father and his sons with water,

⁵ Thou shalt clothe Aaron with his vestments, that is, with the linen garment and the tunick, and the ephod and the rational, which thou shalt gird with the girdle.

⁶ And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and the holy plate upon the mitre,

⁷ And thou shalt pour the oil of unction upon his head: and by this rite shall he be consecrated.

⁸ Thou shalt bring his sons also and shalt put on them the linen tunicks, and gird them with a girdle:

⁹ To wit, Aaron and his children, and thou shalt put mitres upon them: and they shall be priests to me by a perpetual ordinance. After thou shalt have consecrated their hands,

⁶ And it came to pass, as I was going, and drawing nigh to Damascus at midday, that suddenly from heaven there shone round about me a great light:

⁷ And falling on the ground, I heard a voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

⁸ And I answered: Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me: I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

⁹ And they that were with me, saw indeed the light, but they heard not the voice of him that spoke with me.

¹⁰ And I said: What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me: Arise, and go to Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things that thou must do.

¹¹ And whereas I did not see for the brightness of that light, being led by the hand by my companions, I came to Damascus.

¹² And one Ananias, a man according to the law, having testimony of all the Jews who dwelt there,

¹³ Coming to me, and standing by me, said to me: Brother Saul, look up. And I the same hour looked upon him.

¹⁴ But he said: The God of our fathers hath preordained thee that thou shouldst know his will, and see the Just One, and shouldst hear the voice from his mouth.

¹⁵ For thou shalt be his witness to all men, of those things which thou hast seen and heard.

¹⁶ And now why tarriest thou? Rise up, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, invoking his name.

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when I was come again to Jerusalem, and was praying in the temple, that I was in a trance,

¹⁸ And saw him saying unto me: Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem; because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

¹⁹ And I said: Lord, they know that I cast into prison, and beat in every synagogue, them that believed in thee.

²⁰ And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I stood by and consented, and kept the garments of them that killed him.

²¹ And he said to me: Go, for unto the Gentiles afar off, will I send thee.