Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy saving health how greatly shall he rejoice!

² Thou hast given him his heart’s desire and hast not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

³ For thou givest him beforehand the blessings of goodness; thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

⁴ He asked life of thee, and thou didst give him length of days for ever and ever.

⁵ His glory is great in thy saving health; honour and beauty hast thou laid upon him.

⁶ For thou hast made him most blessed for ever; thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

⁷ ¶ For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

⁸ Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies; thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

⁹ Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger; the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

¹⁰ Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth and their seed from among the children of men.

¹¹ For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a wicked device, but they did not prevail.

¹² Therefore shalt thou separate them; thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

¹³ Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy valour.

¹⁷ ¶ But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David, and David heard of it and went down to the fortress.

¹⁸ The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. {Heb. of the giants}

¹⁹ Then David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? Wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up, for I without a doubt will deliver the Philistines into thy hand.

²⁰ And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there and said, The LORD has broken forth upon my enemies before me as the breach of waters. Therefore, he called the name of that place Baalperazim.

²¹ And they left their images there, and David and his men burned them.

²² And the Philistines came up yet again and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

²³ And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up, but go around behind them and come upon them over against the mulberry trees,

²⁴ and when thou hearest thunder going through the tops of the mulberry trees, then thou shalt move, for then the LORD shall go out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.

²⁵ And David did so as the LORD had commanded him and smote the Philistines from Geba unto Gazer.

7 ¶ After these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea because the Jews sought to kill him.

² Now the feast of the Jews, of the tabernacles, was at hand.

³ His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart from this place and go into Judea that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.

⁴ For no one who seeks to be clearly known does anything in secret. If thou doest these things, show thyself to the world.

⁵ For not even his brethren believed in him.

⁶ Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come, but your time is always ready.

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.

⁸ Go ye up unto this feast; I go not up yet unto this feast, for my time is not yet fulfilled.

⁹ And having said these things unto them, he abode still in Galilee.