Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Prayer of David.

¹ ¶ Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me, for I am poor and needy.

² Preserve my soul; for I am merciful, O thou my God, save thy slave that trusts in thee.

³ Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for I cry unto thee daily.

⁴ Rejoice the soul of thy slave, for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

⁵ For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all those that call upon thee.

⁶ Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer and attend to the voice of my supplications.

⁷ In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me.

⁸ ¶ Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord, neither is there any other who does thy works.

⁹ All the Gentiles whom thou hast made shall come and humble themselves before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

¹⁰ For thou art great and doest wondrous things; thou alone art God.

35 ¶ And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou didst flee from the face of Esau, thy brother.

² Then Jacob said unto his household and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you and be clean and change your garments:

³ And let us arise and go up to Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me in the way which I have gone.

⁴ So they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their power and all their earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

¹⁷ ¶ Then the prince of the priests rose up, and all those that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees) were filled with jealousy

¹⁸ and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.

¹⁹ But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth and said,

²⁰ Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

²¹ And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning and taught. In the meantime, the prince of the priests came, and those that were with him, and called the council together and all the elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

²² But when the officers came and found them not in the prison, they returned and told,

²³ saying, We certainly found the prison shut with all security and the keepers standing outside before the doors, but when we had opened, we found no one within.

²⁴ Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the princes of the priests heard these things, they were perplexed regarding what this would come to.

²⁵ Then someone came and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.

²⁶ ¶ Then the captain with the officers went and brought them without violence, for they feared being stoned by the people.