Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

29 A Psalm of David. Ascribe to Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty, Ascribe to Jehovah honour and strength.

² Ascribe to Jehovah the honour of His name, Bow yourselves to Jehovah, In the beauty of holiness.

³ The voice of Jehovah [is] on the waters, The God of glory hath thundered, Jehovah [is] on many waters.

⁴ The voice of Jehovah [is] with power, The voice of Jehovah [is] with majesty,

⁵ The voice of Jehovah [is] shivering cedars, Yea, Jehovah shivers the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶ And He causeth them to skip as a calf, Lebanon and Sirion as a son of Reems,

⁷ The voice of Jehovah is hewing fiery flames,

⁸ The voice of Jehovah paineth a wilderness, Jehovah paineth the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹ The voice of Jehovah paineth the oaks, And maketh bare the forests, And in His temple every one saith, `Glory.'

¹⁰ Jehovah on the deluge hath sat, And Jehovah sitteth king -- to the age,

¹¹ Jehovah strength to his people giveth, Jehovah blesseth His people with peace!

16 And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Till when art thou mourning for Saul, and I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I send thee unto Jesse the Beth-Lehemite, for I have seen among his sons for Myself a king.

² And Samuel saith, `How do I go? when Saul hath heard, then he hath slain me.' And Jehovah saith, `A heifer of the herd thou dost take in thy hand, and hast said, To sacrifice to Jehovah I have come;

³ and thou hast called for Jesse in the sacrifice, and I cause thee to know that which thou dost do, and thou hast anointed to Me him of whom I speak unto thee.'

⁴ And Samuel doth that which Jehovah hath spoken, and cometh in to Beth-Lehem, and the elders of the city tremble to meet him, and [one] saith, `Is thy coming peace?'

⁵ and he saith, `Peace; to sacrifice to Jehovah I have come, sanctify yourselves, and ye have come in with me to the sacrifice;' and he sanctifieth Jesse and his sons, and calleth them to the sacrifice.

⁶ And it cometh to pass, in their coming in, that he seeth Eliab, and saith, `Surely, before Jehovah [is] His anointed.'

⁷ And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for [it is] not as man seeth -- for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'

⁸ And Jesse calleth unto Abinadab, and causeth him to pass by before Samuel; and he saith, `Also on this Jehovah hath not fixed.'

⁹ And Jesse causeth Shammah to pass by, and he saith, `Also on this Jehovah hath not fixed.'

¹⁰ And Jesse causeth seven of his sons to pass by before Samuel, and Samuel saith to Jesse, `Jehovah hath not fixed on these.'

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.

¹¹ Charge these things, and teach;

¹² let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

¹³ till I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching;

¹⁴ be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership;

¹⁵ of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things;

¹⁶ take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; remain in them, for this thing doing, both thyself thou shalt save, and those hearing thee.