Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
God’s Omnipresence and Omniscience.
For the music director. A Psalm of David.
139 Lord, You have (A)searched me and known me.
2 You (B)know [a]when I sit down and [b]when I get up;
You (C)understand my thought from far away.
3 You [c](D)scrutinize my [d]path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
4 [e]Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, Lord, You (E)know it all.
5 You have (F)encircled me behind and in front,
And (G)placed Your hand upon me.
6 Such (H)knowledge is (I)too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot comprehend it.
13 For You (A)created my innermost parts;
You (B)wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to You, because [a]I am awesomely and wonderfully made;
(C)Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
15 My [b](D)frame was not hidden from You
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully formed in the (E)depths of the earth;
16 Your (F)eyes have seen my formless substance;
And in (G)Your book were written
All the (H)days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
16 (A)Then the Lord raised up judges [a]who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they [b]committed infidelity with other gods and bowed down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way (B)in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do the same as their fathers. 18 And when the Lord raised up judges for them, (C)the Lord was with the judge and saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was (D)moved to pity by their groaning because of those who tormented and oppressed them. 19 But it came about, when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their obstinate ways. 20 (E)So the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has violated My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice, 21 (F)I in turn will no longer drive out from them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died, 22 in order to (G)test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk in it as their fathers [c]did, or not.” 23 So the Lord allowed those nations to remain, not driving them out quickly; and He did not hand them over to Joshua.
16 Paul stood up, and (A)motioning with his hand said,
“Men of Israel, and (B)you who fear God, listen: 17 The God of this people Israel (C)chose our fathers and [a](D)made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm (E)He led them out from it. 18 For (F)a period of about forty years (G)He put up with them in the wilderness. 19 (H)When He had destroyed (I)seven nations in the land of Canaan, He (J)distributed their land as an inheritance—all of which took (K)about 450 years. 20 After these things He (L)gave them judges until (M)Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they (N)asked for a king, and God gave them (O)Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 After He had (P)removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘(Q)I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My [b]will.’ 23 (R)From the descendants of this man, (S)according to promise, God has brought to Israel (T)a Savior, Jesus, 24 after (U)John had proclaimed, before [c]His coming, a (V)baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25 And while John (W)was completing his course, (X)he kept saying, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But behold, One is coming after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
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