Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁹ Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress [is] to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

¹⁰ For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

¹¹ Among all mine adversaries I have been a reproach, And to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintances, Those seeing me without -- fled from me.

¹² I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.

¹³ For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear [is] round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,

¹⁴ And I on Thee -- I have trusted, O Jehovah, I have said, `Thou [art] my God.'

¹⁵ In Thy hand [are] my times, Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from my pursuers.

¹⁶ Cause Thy face to shine on Thy servant, Save me in Thy kindness.

¹¹ And Samuel saith unto Jesse, `Are the young men finished?' and he saith, `Yet hath been left the youngest; and lo, he delighteth himself among the flock;' and Samuel saith unto Jesse, `Send and take him, for we do not turn round till his coming in hither.'

¹² And he sendeth, and bringeth him in, and he [is] ruddy, with beauty of eyes, and of good appearance; and Jehovah saith, `Rise, anoint him, for this [is] he.'

¹³ And Samuel taketh the horn of oil, and anointeth him in the midst of his brethren, and prosper over David doth the Spirit of Jehovah from that day and onwards; and Samuel riseth and goeth to Ramath.

1 Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants;

² Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,

⁴ always, in every supplication of mine for you all, with joy making the supplication,

⁵ for your contribution to the good news from the first day till now,

⁶ having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform [it] till a day of Jesus Christ,

⁷ according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and [in] the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

⁹ and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

¹⁰ for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,

¹¹ being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that [is] through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.