Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹² And Thou, O Jehovah, to the age abidest, And Thy memorial to all generations.

¹³ Thou -- Thou risest -- Thou pitiest Zion, For the time to favour her, For the appointed time hath come.

¹⁴ For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.

¹⁵ And nations fear the name of Jehovah, And all kings of the earth Thine honour,

¹⁶ For Jehovah hath builded Zion, He hath been seen in His honour,

¹⁷ He turned unto the prayer of the destitute, And He hath not despised their prayer.

¹⁸ This is written for a later generation, And the people created do praise Jah.

¹⁹ For He hath looked From the high place of His sanctuary. Jehovah from heaven unto earth looked attentively,

²⁰ To hear the groan of the prisoner, To loose sons of death,

²¹ To declare in Zion the name of Jehovah, And His praise in Jerusalem,

²² In the peoples being gathered together, And the kingdoms -- to serve Jehovah.

²³ He hath humbled in the way my power, He hath shortened my days.

²⁴ I say, `My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations [are] Thine years.

²⁵ Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands [are] the heavens.

²⁶ They -- They perish, and Thou remainest, And all of them as a garment become old, As clothing Thou changest them, And they are changed.

²⁷ And Thou [art] the same, and Thine years are not finished.

²⁸ The sons of Thy servants do continue, And their seed before Thee is established!

8 And Elisha spake unto the woman whose son he had revived, saying, `Rise and go, thou and thy household, and sojourn where thou dost sojourn, for Jehovah hath called for a famine, and also, it is coming unto the land seven years.'

² And the woman riseth, and doth according to the word of the man of God, and goeth, she and her household, and sojourneth in the land of the Philistines seven years.

³ And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven years, that the woman turneth back from the land of the Philistines, and goeth out to cry unto the king, for her house, and for her field.

⁴ And the king is speaking unto Gehazi, servant of the man of God, saying, `Recount, I pray thee, to me, the whole of the great things that Elisha hath done.'

⁵ And it cometh to pass, he is recounting to the king how he had revived the dead, and lo, the woman whose son he had revived is crying unto the king, for her house and for her field, and Gehazi saith, `My lord, O king, this [is] the woman, and this her son, whom Elisha revived.'

⁶ And the king asketh at the woman, and she recounteth to him, and the king appointeth to her a certain eunuch, saying, `Give back all that she hath, and all the increase of the field from the day of her leaving the land even till now.'

³⁶ and after certain days, Paul said unto Barnabas, `Having turned back again, we may look after our brethren, in every city in which we have preached the word of the Lord -- how they are.'

³⁷ And Barnabas counseled to take with [them] John called Mark,

³⁸ and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;

³⁹ there came, therefore, a sharp contention, so that they were parted from one another, and Barnabas having taken Mark, did sail to Cyprus,

⁴⁰ and Paul having chosen Silas, went forth, having been given up to the grace of God by the brethren;

⁴¹ and he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies.