Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

21 To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Jehovah, in Thy strength is the king joyful, In Thy salvation how greatly he rejoiceth.

² The desire of his heart Thou gavest to him, And the request of his lips Thou hast not withheld. Selah.

³ For Thou puttest before him blessings of goodness, Thou settest on his head a crown of fine gold.

⁴ Life he hath asked from Thee, Thou hast given to him -- length of days, Age-during -- and for ever.

⁵ Great [is] his honour in Thy salvation, Honour and majesty Thou placest on him.

⁶ For Thou makest him blessings for ever, Thou dost cause him to rejoice with joy, By Thy countenance.

⁷ For the king is trusting in Jehovah, And in the kindness of the Most High He is not moved.

⁸ Thy hand cometh to all Thine enemies, Thy right hand doth find Thy haters.

⁹ Thou makest them as a furnace of fire, At the time of Thy presence. Jehovah in His anger doth swallow them, And fire doth devour them.

¹⁰ Their fruit from earth Thou destroyest, And their seed from the sons of men.

¹¹ For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

¹² For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.

¹³ Be Thou exalted, O Jehovah in, Thy strength, We sing and we praise Thy might!

¹⁷ And the Philistines hear that they have anointed David for king over Israel, and all the Philistines come up to seek David, and David heareth, and goeth down unto the fortress,

¹⁸ and the Philistines have come, and are spread out in the valley of Rephaim.

¹⁹ And David asketh of Jehovah, saying, `Do I go up unto the Philistines? dost Thou give them into my hand?' And Jehovah saith unto David, `Go up, for I certainly give the Philistines into thy hand.'

²⁰ And David cometh in to Baal-Perazim, and David smiteth them there, and saith, `Jehovah hath broken forth [on] mine enemies before me, as the breaking forth of waters;' therefore he hath called the name of that place Baal-Perazim.

²¹ And they forsake there their idols, and David and his men lift them up.

²² And the Philistines add again to come up, and are spread out in the valley of Rephaim,

²³ and David asketh of Jehovah, and He saith, `Thou dost not go up, turn round unto their rear, and thou hast come to them over-against the mulberries,

²⁴ and it cometh to pass, in thy hearing the sound of a stepping in the tops of the mulberries, then thou dost move sharply, for then hath Jehovah gone out before thee to smite in the camp of the Philistines.'

²⁵ And David doth so, as Jehovah commanded him, and smiteth the Philistines from Geba unto thy coming to Gazer.

7 And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him,

² and the feast of the Jews was nigh -- that of tabernacles --

³ his brethren, therefore, said unto him, `Remove hence, and go away to Judea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works that thou dost;

⁴ for no one in secret doth anything, and himself seeketh to be in public; if thou dost these things -- manifest thyself to the world;'

⁵ for not even were his brethren believing in him.

⁶ Jesus, therefore, saith to them, `My time is not yet present, but your time is always ready;

⁷ the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

⁸ Ye -- go ye up to this feast; I do not yet go up to this feast, because my time hath not yet been fulfilled;'

⁹ and saying these things to them, he remained in Galilee.