Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

86 A Prayer of David. Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, Answer me, for I [am] poor and needy.

² Keep my soul, for I [am] pious, Save Thy servant -- who is trusting to Thee, O Thou, my God.

³ Favour me, O Lord, for to Thee I call all the day.

⁴ Rejoice the soul of Thy servant, For unto Thee, O Lord, my soul I lift up.

⁵ For Thou, Lord, [art] good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.

⁶ Hear, O Jehovah, my prayer, And attend to the voice of my supplications.

⁷ In a day of my distress I call Thee, For Thou dost answer me.

⁸ There is none like Thee among the gods, O Lord, And like Thy works there are none.

⁹ All nations that Thou hast made Come and bow themselves before Thee, O Lord, And give honour to Thy name.

¹⁰ For great [art] Thou, and doing wonders, Thou [art] God Thyself alone.

35 And God saith unto Jacob, `Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.'

² And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who [are] with him, `Turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

³ and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.'

⁴ And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that [are] in their hand, and the rings that [are] in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which [is] by Shechem;

¹⁷ And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal,

¹⁸ and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;

¹⁹ and a messenger of the Lord through the night opened the doors of the prison, having also brought them forth, he said,

²⁰ `Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;'

²¹ and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,

²² and the officers having come, did not find them in the prison, and having turned back, they told,

²³ saying -- `The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened -- within we found no one.'

²⁴ And as the priest, and the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were doubting concerning them to what this would come;

²⁵ and coming near, a certain one told them, saying -- `Lo, the men whom ye did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;'

²⁶ then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;