Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
69 Save me, O God, for the waters have entered even to my soul.
2 I sink in the deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, and the streams run over me.
3 I am weary from crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would destroy me, and are wrongfully my enemies, are mighty. Thus, I restored that which I did not take.
5 O God, You know my foolishness, and my faults are not hidden from You.
30 I will praise the Name of God with a song and magnify Him with thanksgiving.
31 This also shall please the LORD better than a young bullock that has horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see this; and those who seek God shall be glad; and Your heart shall live.
33 For the LORD hears the poor and does not despise prisoners.
34 Let Heaven and Earth praise Him; the seas and all that moves in them!
35 For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, so that men may dwell there and possess it.
36 Also, the seed of His servants shall inherit it; and those who love His Name shall dwell therein. To him who excels: A Psalm of David, to put in remembrance
22 Also, the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
23 “Take the best spices for yourself: five hundred shekels of the most pure myrrh, half that much of sweet cinnamon (two hundred-fifty), two hundred-fifty of sweet calamus,
24 “five hundred of cassia (according to the shekel of the Sanctuary), and a hin of olive oil.
25 “And you shall make the oil of holy ointment from it, a most precious ointment after the art of the perfumer. This shall be the oil of holy ointment.
26 “And you shall anoint the Tabernacle of the Congregation with it, and the Ark of the Testimony,
27 “the Table and all its instruments, the Lampstand with all its instruments, the altar of incense,
28 “the altar of burnt offering with all its instruments, and the basin and its pedestal.
29 “So you shall sanctify them; and they shall be Most Holy. All that shall touch them, must be holy.
30 “You shall also anoint Aaron and his sons, and shall consecrate them, so that they may minister to Me in the Priest’s office.
31 “Moreover, you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘This shall be a holy anointing oil to Me, throughout your generations.
32 “No one shall anoint man’s flesh with it, nor shall you make any composition like it. It is Holy and shall be holy to you.
33 “Whoever shall make such an ointment, or whoever shall put any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’”
34 And the LORD said to Moses, “Take sweet spices for yourself—pure myrrh and stacte and galbanum and odors with pure frankincense—each of equal weight.
35 “Then you shall make incense from them, composed after the art of the perfumer, mingled together, pure, holy.
36 “And you shall beat it to powder, and shall put it before the Testimony, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, where I will meet with you. It shall be Most Holy to you.
37 “And you shall not make any composition for yourself like this incense which you shall make. It shall be holy to you, for the LORD.
38 “Whoever shall make any incense like it, he shall be cut off from his people.”
2 And when they heard him speak in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept even more silent. And he said,
3 “I am indeed a man born Jewish in Tarsus in Cilicia but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel and instructed according to the perfect manner of the Law of the Fathers. And I was zealous toward God, as you all are this day.
4 “And I persecuted the Way to the death, binding and delivering both men and women into prison,
5 “to which the chief priest and all the company of the elders also testify. From them I also received letters to the brothers and went to Damascus to bind those who were there and bring them to Jerusalem, so that they might be punished.
6 “And so it was as I journeyed and had come near to Damascus (about noon) that suddenly a great light from Heaven shone all around me.
7 “So I fell to the Earth and heard a voice saying to me, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?
8 “Then I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And He said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, Whom you persecute.’
9 “Moreover, those who were with me indeed saw a light and were afraid. But they did not hear the voice of Him who spoke to me.
10 “Then I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord’? And the Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. And there you shall be told all things which are appointed for you to do.’
11 “So, after I could not see because of the Glory of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me and came into Damascus.
12 “And one Ananias (a godly man as pertaining to the Law, having good report of all the Jews who dwelt there)
13 “came to me and stood and said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’ And that same hour I looked at him.
14 “And he said, ‘The God of our Fathers has appointed you, that you should know His will, and should see the Just One, and should hear the voice of His mouth.
15 ‘For you shall be His witness to all mankind of the things which you have seen and heard.
16 ‘Now therefore why do you wait? Arise, and be baptized. And wash away your sins by calling on the Name of the Lord.’
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