Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

17 Hear the right, O Lord; attend unto my cry! Give ear unto my prayer, which goeth not out of feigned lips.

² Let my sentence come forth from Thy presence; let Thine eyes behold things with equity.

³ Thou hast tested mine heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

⁴ Concerning the works of men, by the word of Thy lips I have been kept from the paths of the destroyer.

⁵ Uphold my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

⁶ I have called upon Thee, for Thou wilt hear me, O God; incline Thine ear unto me and hear my speaking.

⁷ Show Thy marvelous lovingkindness, O Thou that savest by Thy right hand them that put their trust in Thee from those that rise up against them.

¹⁵ As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy likeness.

14 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel and set them in their own land; and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

² And the people shall take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids; and they shall take them captive whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors.

¹⁰ But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me hath flourished again; though ye always cared, ye lacked opportunity.

¹¹ Not that I speak in respect to want, for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

¹² I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

¹³ I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.

¹⁴ Notwithstanding, ye have done well that ye participated in my affliction.

¹⁵ Now ye Philippians know also that in the beginning of the Gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.