Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

24 Unto the end, a psalm for David. To thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.

² In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.

³ Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

⁴ Let all them be confounded that act unjust things without cause. shew, O Lord, thy ways to me, and teach me thy paths.

⁵ Direct me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art God my Saviour; and on thee have I waited all the day long.

⁶ Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.

⁷ The sins of my youth and my ignorances do not remember. According to thy mercy remember thou me: for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.

⁸ The Lord is sweet and righteous: therefore he will give a law to sinners in the way.

⁹ He will guide the mild in judgment: he will teach the meek his ways.

¹⁰ All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.

¹¹ For thy name's sake, O Lord, thou wilt pardon my sin: for it is great.

¹² Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law in the way he hath chosen.

¹³ His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit the land.

¹⁴ The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.

¹⁵ My eyes are ever towards the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare.

¹⁶ Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor.

¹⁷ The troubles of my heart are multiplied: deliver me from my necessities.

¹⁸ See my abjection and my labour; and forgive me all my sins.

¹⁹ Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred.

²⁰ Keep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee.

²¹ The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.

²² Deliver Israel, O God, from all his tribulations.

¹⁰ Frame an ark of setim wood, the length whereof shall be of two cubits and a half: the breadth, a cubit and a half: the height, likewise, a cubit and a half.

¹¹ And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold within and without: and over it thou shalt make a golden crown round about:

¹² And four golden rings, which thou shall put at the four corners of the ark: let two rings be on the one side, and two on the other.

¹³ Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.

¹⁴ And thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the sides of the ark, that it may be carried on them.

¹⁵ And they shall be always in the rings, neither shall they at any time be drawn out of them.

¹⁶ And thou shalt put in the ark the testimony which I will give thee.

¹⁷ Thou shalt make also a propitiatory of the purest gold: the length thereof shall be two cubits and a half, and the breadth a cubit and a half.

¹⁸ Thou shalt make also two cherubims of beaten gold, on the two sides of the oracle.

¹⁹ Let one cherub be on the one side, and the other on the other.

²⁰ Let them cover both sides of the propitiatory, spreading their wings, and covering the oracle, and let them look one towards the other, their faces being turned towards the propitiatory wherewith the ark is to be covered.

²¹ In which thou shalt put the testimony that I will give thee.

²² Thence will I give orders, and will speak to thee over the propitiatory, and from the midst of the two cherubims, which shall be upon the ark of the testimony, all things which I will command the children of Israel by thee.

2 For I would have you know, what manner of care I have for you and for them that are at Laodicea, and whosoever have not seen my face in the flesh:

² That their hearts may be comforted, being instructed in charity, and unto all riches of fulness of understanding, unto the knowledge of the mystery of God the Father and of Christ Jesus:

³ In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

⁴ Now this I say, that no man may deceive you by loftiness of words.

⁵ For though I be absent in body, yet in spirit I am with you; rejoicing, and beholding your order, and the steadfastness of your faith which is in Christ.