Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ I will sing of mercy and judgment; unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.

² When thou shalt come unto me, I will walk in the way of perfection and understand. I will walk in the midst of my house in the perfection of my heart.

³ I will set nothing of Belial before my eyes: I hate the work of those that betray; it shall not cleave to me.

⁴ A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will not know a wicked person.

⁵ Whosoever secretly slanders his neighbour, I will cut off; he that has a high look and a proud heart I will not suffer.

⁶ My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he that walks in the way of perfection, he shall serve me.

⁷ He that works deceit shall not dwell within my house; he that tells lies shall not tarry in my sight.

⁸ I will early destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of the LORD.

8 ¶ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the families of the sons of Israel, unto King Solomon in Jerusalem that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

² And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto King Solomon in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month, on the solemn day.

³ And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

⁴ And they brought up the ark of the LORD and the tabernacle of the testimony and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, which the priests and the Levites carried.

⁵ And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

⁶ And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, in the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubim.

⁷ For the cherubim had their wings extended over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its staves from above.

⁸ And they drew out the staves so that the ends of the staves could be seen out in the holy place in front of the oracle, but they could not be seen from outside, and thus they remained until today.

⁹ There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD cut a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ And when the priests came out of the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD.

¹¹ And the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.

¹² ¶ Then Solomon said, The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

¹³ I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

¹⁴ And the king turned his face about and blessed all the congregation of Israel, and all the congregation of Israel were standing.

¹⁵ And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth unto David my father, and with his hand has fulfilled it, saying,

¹⁶ Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I have chosen no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

¹⁷ And it was in the heart of David, my father, to build a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

¹⁸ But the LORD said unto David, my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart;

¹⁹ nevertheless, thou shalt not build the house, but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build a house unto my name.

²⁰ And the LORD has established his word that he spoke, and I have risen up in the place of David, my father, and sit on the throne of Israel as the LORD had said and have built a house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

²¹ And I have set there a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.

¹⁵ And he commanded them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.

¹⁶ And they argued among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.

¹⁷ And as Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why argue ye because ye have no bread? Do ye not consider nor understand? is your heart yet blind?

¹⁸ Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

¹⁹ When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They said unto him, Twelve.

²⁰ And when the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

²¹ And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not yet understand?