Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

6 (For the one directing. With stringed instruments. Al HaSheminit. Mizmor Dovid) Hashem, rebuke me not in Thine anger, neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure.

^2 (3) Have mercy upon me, Hashem; for I am weak: Hashem, heal me; for my atzmot are shaking.

^3 (4) My nefesh is also much shaken; but Thou, Hashem, ad mosai (how much longer)?

^4 (5) Turn, Hashem, deliver my nefesh; hoshieini (save me) for the sake of Thy chesed.

^5 (6) For in mavet there is no remembrance of Thee; in Sheol who shall give Thee thanks?

^6 (7) I am weary with my groaning; all the lailah flood I my mittah with weeping; I water my couch with my tears.

^7 (8) Mine eye is consumed because of ka’as (grief); it groweth old because of all mine enemies.

^8 (9) Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for Hashem hath heard the voice of my weeping.

^9 (10) Hashem hath heard my techinnah (supplication); Hashem will receive my tefillah (prayer).

^10 (11) Let all mine oyevim be ashamed and much troubled; let them turn back and suddenly be ashamed.

¹⁵ He returned to the Ish HaElohim, he and all his machaneh came, stood before him; and he said, Hinei, now I know that there is no Elohim in kol ha’aretz, but in Yisroel; now therefore, please, take a brocha of thy eved.

¹⁶ But he said, As Hashem liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

¹⁷ And Na’aman said, Shall there not then, please, be given to thy eved two mules’ massa (burden) of adamah? For thy eved will henceforth offer neither olah nor zevach unto elohim acherim, but unto Hashem.

¹⁸ In this thing Hashem pardon thy eved, that when adoni goeth into the Bais Rimmon to bow down there, and he leaneth on my yad, and I bow myself in the Bais Rimmon; when I bow down myself in the Bais Rimmon, Hashem pardon thy eved in this thing.

¹⁹ And he said unto him, Go in shalom. So he departed from him some distance.

²¹ And when these things were fulfilled, Rav Sha’ul resolved in his ruach to travel through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Yerushalayim, saying "After I have gone there, it is necessary for me also to see Rome."

²² So Rav Sha’ul sent to Macedonia two of the mesharetim (ministers, servants) with him‖Timotiyos and Erastus, while he stayed a little while longer in [the Province of] Asia.

²³ Now during that time there was no small disturbance concerning the Derech Hashem.

²⁴ For a certain one, Demetrius by name, a silversmith and maker of silver idol shrines for Artemis, was providing no small revach (profit) for the craftsmen.

²⁵ Demetrius also assembled the craftsmen occupied with that trade and he said, "Anashim, you have da’as that our prosperity is from this trade,

²⁶ "And you see and hear that not only here in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Rav Sha’ul has persuaded and drawn away a large multitude saying, ‘Elilim made with human hands are not Elohim.’ [Dt 4:28; Ps 115:4; Isa 44:10-20; Jer 10:3-5]

²⁷ "And this is not only a danger to us, that our part, our trade, will fall into disrepute, but also the temple of the elah hagedolah Artemis may be considered as nothing, and also may be about to suffer the loss of her majesty, which all Asia and the Olam Hazeh worship."