Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁴ They have seen Thy goings, O God, even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

²⁵ The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels:

²⁶ “Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord from the fountain of Israel.”

²⁷ There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.

²⁸ Thy God hath commanded thy strength; strengthen, O God, that which Thou hast wrought for us.

²⁹ Because of Thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto Thee.

³⁰ Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls with the calves of the people, until every one submit himself with pieces of silver; scatter Thou the people that delight in war.

³¹ Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

³² Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth! O sing praises unto the Lord, Selah

³³ to Him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, He doth send out His voice, and that a mighty voice.

³⁴ Ascribe ye strength unto God; His excellency is over Israel, and His strength is in the clouds.

³⁵ O God, Thou art fearsome out of Thy holy places; the God of Israel is He that giveth strength and power unto His people. Blessed be God!

⁶ And when they came to Nachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it.

⁷ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

⁸ And David was displeased because the Lord had broken out upon Uzzah; and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah [that is, The breach of Uzzah] to this day.

⁹ And David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, “How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?”

¹⁰ So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the City of David, but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.

¹¹ And the ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months; and the Lord blessed Obededom and all his household.

¹² And it was told King David, saying, “The Lord hath blessed the house of Obededom and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the City of David with gladness.

²⁷ And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews who were from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people and laid hands on him,

²⁸ crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teacheth all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place, and furthermore brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.”

²⁹ (For they had seen previously with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

³⁰ And all the city was moved and the people ran together, and they took Paul and dragged him out of the temple; and forthwith the doors were shut.

³¹ And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the garrison that all Jerusalem was in an uproar,

³² who immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down unto them; and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left off beating Paul.

³³ Then the chief captain came near, and took him and commanded that he be bound with two chains, and demanded who he was and what he had done.

³⁴ And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude. And when he could learn nothing with certainty because of the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.

³⁵ And when Paul came upon the stairs, so it was that he had to be borne by the soldiers because of the violence of the people.

³⁶ For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, “Away with him!”

³⁷ And as Paul was about to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, “May I speak unto thee?” And he said, “Canst thou speak Greek?

³⁸ Art not thou that Egyptian who prior to these days madest an uproar and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men who were murderers?”

³⁹ But Paul said, “I am a man who am a Jew of Tarsus, a city of Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.”