Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

20 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Jehovah doth answer thee, In a day of adversity, The name of the God of Jacob doth set thee on high,

² He doth send thy help from the sanctuary, And from Zion doth support thee,

³ He doth remember all thy presents, And thy burnt-offering doth reduce to ashes. Selah.

⁴ He doth give to thee according to thy heart, And all thy counsel doth fulfil.

⁵ We sing of thy salvation, And in the name of our God set up a banner. Jehovah doth fulfil all thy requests.

⁶ Now I have known That Jehovah hath saved His anointed, He answereth him from His holy heavens, With the saving might of His right hand.

⁷ Some of chariots, and some of horses, And we of the name of Jehovah our God Make mention.

⁸ They -- they have bowed and have fallen, And we have risen and station ourselves upright.

⁹ O Jehovah, save the king, He doth answer us in the day we call!

25 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

² `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and they take for Me a heave-offering; from every man whose heart impelleth him ye do take My heave-offering.

³ `And this [is] the heave-offering which ye take from them; gold, and silver, and brass,

⁴ and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and linen, and goats' [hair],

⁵ and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

⁶ oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the perfume of the spices,

⁷ shoham stones, and stones for setting for an ephod, and for a breastplate.

⁸ `And they have made for Me a sanctuary, and I have tabernacled in their midst;

⁹ according to all that which I am shewing thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its vessels, even so ye do make [it].

¹⁰ `And they have made an ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;

¹¹ and thou hast overlaid it [with] pure gold, within and without thou dost overlay it, and thou hast made on it a ring of gold round about.

¹² `And thou hast cast for it four rings of gold, and hast put [them] on its four feet, even two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side;

¹³ and thou hast made staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them [with] gold,

¹⁴ and hast brought the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark by them,

¹⁵ in the rings of the ark are the staves, they are not turned aside from it;

¹⁶ and thou hast put unto the ark the testimony which I give unto thee.

¹⁷ `And thou hast made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

¹⁸ and thou hast made two cherubs of gold, beaten work dost thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat;

¹⁹ and make thou one cherub at the end on this side, and one cherub at the end on that; at the mercy-seat ye do make the cherubs on its two ends.

²⁰ `And the cherubs have been spreading out wings on high, covering the mercy-seat over with their wings, and their faces [are] one towards another -- towards the mercy-seat are the faces of the cherubs.

²¹ `And thou hast put the mercy-seat on the ark above, and unto the ark thou dost put the testimony which I give unto thee;

²² and I have met with thee there, and have spoken with thee from off the mercy-seat (from between the two cherubs, which [are] on the ark of the testimony) all that which I command thee concerning the sons of Israel.

2 And I, having come unto you, brethren, came -- not in superiority of discourse or wisdom -- declaring to you the testimony of God,

² for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;

³ and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;

⁴ and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power --

⁵ that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁶ And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,

⁷ but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

⁸ which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;

⁹ but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him --'

¹⁰ but to us did God reveal [them] through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,