Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

120 I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.

² My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

³ May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.

⁴ Behold he shall neither slumber nor sleep, that keepeth Israel.

⁵ The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy protection upon thy right hand.

⁶ The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.

⁷ The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.

⁸ May the Lord keep thy coming in and thy going out; from henceforth now and for ever.

1 In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying:

² Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: The Lord the God of heaven hath given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.

³ Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him. Let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord the God of Israel: he is the God that is in Jerusalem.

⁴ And let all the rest in all places wheresoever they dwell, help him every man from his place. with silver and gold, and goods, and cattle, besides that which they offer freely to the temple of God, which is in Jerusalem.

⁵ Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Juda and Benjamin, and the priests, and Levites, and every one whose spirit God had raised up, to go up to build the temple of the Lord, which was in Jerusalem.

⁶ And all they that were round about, helped their hands with vessels of silver, and gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with furniture, besides what they had offered on their own accord.

⁷ And king Cyrus brought forth the vessels of the temple of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had taken from Jerusalem, and had put them in the temple of his god.

⁸ Now Cyrus king of Persia brought them forth by the hand of Mithridates the son of Gazabar, and numbered them to Sassabasar the prince of Juda.

⁹ And this is the number of them: thirty bowls of gold, a thousand bowls of silver, nine and twenty knives, thirty cups of gold,

¹⁰ Silver cups of a second sort, four hundred and ten: other vessels a thousand.

¹¹ All the vessels of gold and silver, five thousand four hundred: all these Sassabasar brought with them that came up from the captivity of Babylon to Jerusalem.

¹² For our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

¹³ For we write no other things to you than what you have read and known. And I hope that you shall know unto the end:

¹⁴ As also you have known us in part, that we are your glory, as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that you might have a second grace:

¹⁶ And to pass by you into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be brought on my way towards Judea.

¹⁷ Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or, the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there should be with me, It is, and It is not?

¹⁸ But God is faithful, for our preaching which was to you, was not, It is, and It is not.

¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ who was preached among you by us, by me, and Sylvanus, and Timothy, was not, It is and It is not, but, It is, was in him.