Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁹ And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice.

¹⁰ And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.

¹¹ And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.

¹² Sing ye to the Lord, who dwelleth in Sion: declare his ways among the Gentiles:

¹³ For requiring their blood he hath remembered the: he hath not forgotten the cry of the poor.

¹⁴ Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies.

¹⁵ Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death, that I may declare all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

¹⁶ I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they have prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.

¹⁷ The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.

¹⁸ The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.

¹⁹ For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor shall not perish for ever.

²⁰ Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened: let the Gentiles be judged in thy sight.

¹⁴ But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.

¹⁵ And the servants of Saul said to him: Behold now an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.

¹⁶ Let our lord give orders, and thy servants who are before thee will seek out a man skillful in playing on the harp, that when the evil spirit from the Lord is upon thee, he may play with his hand, and thou mayest bear it more easily.

¹⁷ And Saul said to his servants: Provide me then some man that can play well, and bring him to me.

¹⁸ And one of the servants answering, said: Behold I have seen a son of Isai the Bethlehemite, a skillful player, and one of great strength, and a man fit for war, and prudent in his words, and a comely person: and the Lord is with him.

¹⁹ Then Saul sent messengers to Isai, saying: Send me David thy son, who is in the pastures.

²⁰ And Isai took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid of the flock, and sent them by the hand of David his son to Saul.

²¹ And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him exceedingly, and made him his armourbearer.

²² And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let David stand before me: for he hath found favour in my sight.

²³ So whensoever the evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, David took his harp, and played with his hand, and Saul was refreshed, and was better, for the evil spirit departed from him.

20 And after the tumult was ceased, Paul calling to him the disciples, and exhorting them, took his leave, and set forward to go into Macedonia.

² And when he had gone over those parts, and had exhorted them with many words, he came into Greece;

³ Where, when he had spent three months, the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria; so he took a resolution to return through Macedonia.

⁴ And there accompanied him Sopater the son of Pyrrhus, of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus, and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

⁵ These going before, stayed for us at Troas.

⁶ But we sailed from Philippi after the days of the Azymes, and came to them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.

⁷ And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow: and he continued his speech until midnight.

⁸ And there were a great number of lamps in the upper chamber where we were assembled.

⁹ And a certain young man named Eutychus, sitting on the window, being oppressed with a deep sleep, (as Paul was long preaching,) by occasion of his sleep fell from the third loft down, and was taken up dead.

¹⁰ To whom, when Paul had gone down, he laid himself upon him, and embracing him, said: Be not troubled, for his soul is in him.

¹¹ Then going up, and breaking bread and tasting, and having talked a long time to them, until daylight, so he departed.

¹² And they brought the youth alive, and were not a little comforted.

¹³ But we, going aboard the ship, sailed to Assos, being there to take in Paul; for so he had appointed, himself purposing to travel by land.

¹⁴ And when he had met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.

¹⁵ And sailing thence, the day following we came over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos; and the day following we came to Miletus.

¹⁶ For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, lest he should be stayed any time in Asia. For he hasted, if it were possible for him, to keep the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.