Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my supplications for the sake of thy truth; answer me for the sake of thy righteousness.

² And enter not into judgment with thy slave; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

³ For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

⁴ Therefore my spirit has become overwhelmed within me; my heart within me has become desolate.

⁵ I remembered the days of old; I meditated on all thy works; I mused on the work of thy hands.

⁶ I stretched forth my hands unto thee; my soul thirsted after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

⁷ ¶ Hear me speedily, O LORD; my spirit fails; hide not thy face from me lest I be like those that go down into the grave.

⁸ Cause me to hear thy mercy in the morning, for in thee do I trust; cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul unto thee.

⁹ Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies; I flee unto thee.

¹⁰ Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Let thy good Spirit lead me into the land of uprightness.

¹¹ By thy name, O LORD, thou shalt give me life; by thy righteousness thou shalt bring my soul out of trouble.

¹² And by thy mercy thou shalt scatter my enemies and destroy all the adversaries of my soul; for I am thy slave.

¹⁷ ¶ And it came to pass after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

¹⁸ And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Art thou come unto me to call my iniquity to remembrance and to cause my son to die?

¹⁹ And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom and carried him up into the chamber where he abode and laid him upon his own bed.

²⁰ And he cried unto the LORD and said, O LORD my God, hast thou even brought evil upon the widow, with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?

²¹ And he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried unto the LORD and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again.

²² And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

²³ And Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the chamber into the house and delivered him unto his mother, and Elijah said, See, thy son lives.

²⁴ Then the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God and that the word of the LORD is true in thy mouth.

⁷ ¶ And the first of the sabbaths, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart the next day, and continued his word until midnight.

⁸ And there were many lamps in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.

⁹ And a certain young man named Eutychus sat in a window, being fallen into a deep sleep; and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep and fell down from the third loft and was taken up dead.

¹⁰ And Paul went down and fell on him and, embracing him, said, Trouble not yourselves, for his soul is still in him.

¹¹ When he therefore was come up again and had broken bread and eaten and talked a long while, even until day break, thus he departed.

¹² And they took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.