Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

150 Praise ye the Lord in his holy places: praise ye him in the firmament of his power.

² Praise ye him for his mighty acts: praise ye him according to the multitude of his greatness.

³ Praise him with sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp.

⁴ Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs.

⁵ Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of joy: let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.

17 Now the Philistines gathering together their troops to battle, assembled at Socho of Juda, and camped between Socho and Azeca in the borders of Dommim.

² And Saul and the children of Israel being gathered together came to the valley of Terebinth, and they set the army in array to fight against the Philistines.

³ And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.

⁴ And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the Philistines named Goliath, of Geth, whose height was six cubits and a span:

⁵ And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clothed with a coat of mail with scales, and the weight of his coat of mail was five thousand sicles of brass:

⁶ And he had greaves of brass on his legs, and a buckler of brass covered his shoulders.

⁷ And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and the head of his spear weighed six hundred sicles of iron: and his armourbearer went before him.

⁸ And standing he cried out to the bands of Israel, and said to them: Why are you come out prepared to fight? am not I a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose out a man of you, and let him come down and fight hand to hand.

⁹ If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, we will be servants to you: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, you shall be servants, and shall serve us.

¹⁰ And the Philistine said: I have defied the bands of Israel this day: Give me a man, and let him fight with me hand to hand.

¹¹ And Saul and all the Israelites hearing these words of the Philistine were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

¹² Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Juda before mentioned, whose name was Isai, who had eight sons, and was an old man in the days of Saul, and of great age among men.

¹³ And his three eldest sons followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle, were Eliab the firstborn, and the second Abinadab, and the third Samma.

¹⁴ But David was the youngest. So the three eldest having followed Saul,

¹⁵ David went, and returned from Saul, to feed his father's flock at Bethlehem.

¹⁶ Now the Philistine came out morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

¹⁷ And Isai said to David his son: Take for thy brethren an ephi of frumenty, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren.

¹⁸ And carry these ten little cheeses to the tribune: and go see thy brethren, if they are well: and learn with whom they are placed.

¹⁹ But Saul, and they, and all the children of Israel were in the valley of Terebinth fighting against the Philistines.

²⁰ David therefore arose in the morning, and gave the charge of the flock to the keeper: and went away loaded as Isai had commanded him. And he came to the place of Magala, and to the army, which was going out to fight, and shouted for the battle.

²¹ For Israel had put themselves in array, and the Philistines who stood against them were prepared.

²² And David leaving the vessels which he had brought, under the care of the keeper of the baggage, ran to the place of the battle and asked if all things went well with his brethren.

²³ And as he talked with them, that baseborn man whose name was Goliath, the Philistine, of Geth, shewed himself coming up from the camp of the Philistines: and he spoke according to the same words, and David heard them.

¹² And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.

¹³ But of the rest no man durst join himself unto them; but the people magnified them.

¹⁴ And the multitude of men and women who believed in the Lord, was more increased:

¹⁵ Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that when Peter came, his shadow at the least, might overshadow any of them, and they might be delivered from their infirmities.

¹⁶ And there came also together to Jerusalem a multitude out of the neighbouring cities, bringing sick persons, and such as were troubled with unclean spirits; who were all healed.