Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁹ The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in time and in affliction.

¹⁰ And those who know Your Name will trust in You. For You, LORD, have not failed those who seek You.

¹¹ Sing praises to the LORD, Who dwells in Zion. Show the people His works.

¹² For when He enquires after blood, He remembers it; not forgetting the complaint of the poor.

¹³ Have mercy upon me, O LORD. Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You Who lifts me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴ so that I may show all Your praises within the gates of the daughter of Zion and rejoice in Your salvation.

¹⁵ The heathen are sunken down in the pit they made. Their foot is taken in the net they have hidden.

¹⁶ The LORD is known by executing judgment. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

¹⁷ The wicked shall return to Hell, and all nations that forget God.

¹⁸ For the poor shall not be always forgotten. The hope of the afflicted shall not perish forever.

¹⁹ Up LORD! Do not let man prevail! Let the heathen be judged in Your sight.

²⁰ Put them in fear, O LORD, so that the heathen may know that they are but men. Selah.

¹⁴ But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul; and a spirit of misery from the LORD troubled him.

¹⁵ And Saul’s servants said to him, “Behold now, the spirit of misery from God troubles you.

¹⁶ “Let our Lord therefore command your servants before you to seek a man who is a cunning player upon the harp, so that when the God’s spirit of misery comes upon you, he may play with his hand, and you may be eased.

¹⁷ Then Saul said to his servants, “Please provide me a man who can play well and bring him to me.”

¹⁸ Then one of his servants answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse, a Bethlehemite, who can play. He is strong, valiant, a man of war, wise in matters and good-looking. And the LORD is with him.

¹⁹ Therefore, Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, “Send me David, your son, who is with the sheep.”

²⁰ And Jesse took a donkey, with bread and a skin of wine and a kid, 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 very well. And he was his armor bearer.

²² And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Let David now remain with me; for he has found favor in my sight.”

²³ And so when the spirit from God came upon Saul, David took a harp and played with his hand and Saul was refreshed and was eased. For the spirit of misery departed from him.

20 Now after the disturbance abated, Paul called the disciples to him, and embraced them, and left for Macedonia.

² And when he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

³ And after staying there for three months, he was about to sail for Syria. But he decided to return through Macedonia because the Jews had set a trap for him.

⁴ And Sopater of Berea accompanied him into Asia, as well as Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.

⁵ These went ahead and awaited us at Troas.

⁶ And after the days of Unleavened Bread, we sailed from Philippi. And five days later we joined them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

⁷ And the first day of the week (the disciples having come together to break bread), Paul, ready to leave the next day, preached to them, and continued preaching until midnight.

⁸ And there were many lights in the upper room where they were gathered together.

⁹ And a certain young man named Eutychus had fallen into a dead sleep while sitting in a window. And as Paul preached at length, he was overcome with sleep and fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.

¹⁰ But Paul went down, and laid himself on him, and embraced him, saying, “Do not trouble yourselves. For his life is in him.”

¹¹ Then, after having come up again and broken bread and eaten, he talked a long while (till daybreak) and left.

¹² And they brought the boy (alive). And they were not a little comforted.

¹³ But we went ahead to the ship and sailed to Assos, so that we might receive Paul there. For so had he arranged and would himself go on foot.

¹⁴ Now when he had met us in Assos, and we had received him, we went to Mitylene.

¹⁵ And we sailed from there the next day and came opposite Chios. And the next day we arrived at Samos and stayed in Trogyllium. The next day we came to Miletus.

¹⁶ For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, because he did not want to spend time in Asia. For he hurried to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.