Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

143 Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.

² My mercy, and my refuge: my support, and my deliverer: My protector, and I have hoped in him: who subdueth my people under me.

³ Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

⁴ Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

⁵ Lord, bow down thy heavens and descend: touch the mountains and they shall smoke.

⁶ Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

⁷ Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:

⁸ Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

⁹ To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.

¹⁰ Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:

¹¹ Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:

¹² Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

¹³ Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:

¹⁴ Their oxen fat. There is no breach of wall, nor passage, nor crying out in their streets.

¹⁵ They have called the people happy, that hath these things: but happy is that people whose God is the Lord.

¹⁷ And it came to pass after this that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick, and the sickness was very grievous, so that there was no breath left in him.

¹⁸ And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to me that my iniquities should be remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son?

¹⁹ And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

²⁰ And he cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord my God, hast thou afflicted also the widow, with whom I am after a so maintained, so as to kill her son?

²¹ And he stretched, and measured himself upon the child three times, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return into his body.

²² And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child returned into him, and he revived.

²³ And Elias took the child, and brought him down from the upper chamber to the house below, and delivered him to his mother, and said to her: Behold thy son liveth.

²⁴ And the woman said to Elias: Now, by this I know that thou art a man of God, and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true.

⁷ And on the first day of the week, when we were assembled to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, being to depart on the morrow: and he continued his speech until midnight.

⁸ And there were a great number of lamps in the upper chamber where we were assembled.

⁹ And a certain young man named Eutychus, sitting on the window, being oppressed with a deep sleep, (as Paul was long preaching,) by occasion of his sleep fell from the third loft down, and was taken up dead.

¹⁰ To whom, when Paul had gone down, he laid himself upon him, and embracing him, said: Be not troubled, for his soul is in him.

¹¹ Then going up, and breaking bread and tasting, and having talked a long time to them, until daylight, so he departed.

¹² And they brought the youth alive, and were not a little comforted.