Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

29 A psalm of a canticle, at the dedication of David's house.

² I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast upheld me: and hast not made my enemies to rejoice over me.

³ O Lord my God, I have cried to thee, and then hast healed me.

⁴ Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.

⁵ Sing to the Lord, O ye his saints: and give praise to the memory of his holiness.

⁶ For wrath is in his indignation; and life in his good will. In the evening weeping shall have place, and in the morning gladness.

⁷ And in my abundance I said: I shall never be moved.

⁸ O Lord, in thy favour, thou gavest strength to my beauty. Thou turnedst away thy face from me, and I became troubled.

⁹ To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will make supplication to my God.

¹⁰ What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?

¹¹ The Lord hath heard, and hath had mercy on me: the Lord became my helper.

¹² Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy: thou hast cut my sackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness:

¹³ To the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret: O Lord my God, I will give praise to thee for ever.

¹³ The wing of the ostrich is like the wings of the heron, and of the hawk.

¹⁴ When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.

¹⁵ She forgetteth that the foot may tread upon them, or that the beasts of the field may break them.

¹⁶ She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers, she hath laboured in vain, no fear constraining her.

¹⁷ For God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he given her understanding.

¹⁸ When time shall be, she setteth up her wings on high: she scorneth the horse and his rider.

¹⁹ Wilt thou give strength to the horse, or clothe his neck with neighing?

²⁰ Wilt thou lift him up like the locusts? the glory of his nostrils is terror.

²¹ He breaketh up the earth with his hoof, he pranceth boldly, he goeth forward to meet armed men.

²² He despiseth fear, he turneth not his back to the sword,

²³ Above him shall the quiver rattle, the spear and shield shall glitter.

²⁴ Chasing and raging he swalloweth the ground, neither doth he make account when the noise of the trumpet soundeth.

²⁵ When he heareth the trumpet he saith: Ha, ha: he smelleth the battle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of the army.

⁴ Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit;

⁵ And there are diversities of ministries, but the same Lord;

⁶ And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who worketh all in all.

⁷ And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit.

⁸ To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

⁹ To another, faith in the same spirit; to another, the grace of healing in one Spirit;

¹⁰ To another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, the discerning of spirits; to another, diverse kinds of tongues; to another, interpretation of speeches.

¹¹ But all these things one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body, so also is Christ.

¹³ For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether bond or free; and in one Spirit we have all been made to drink.