Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

[A Psalm] of David.

28 Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, [if] thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

² Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.

³ Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, and mischief is in their heart.

⁴ Give them according to their doing, and according to the wickedness of their deeds; give them after the work of their hands, render to them their desert.

⁵ For they regard not the deeds of Jehovah, nor the work of his hands: he will destroy them, and not build them up.

⁶ Blessed be Jehovah, for he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

⁷ Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart confided in him, and I was helped: therefore my heart exulteth, and with my song will I praise him.

⁸ Jehovah is their strength; and he is the stronghold of salvation to his anointed one.

⁹ Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance; and feed them, and lift them up for ever.

¹⁵ And Moses spoke to Jehovah, saying,

¹⁶ Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the assembly,

¹⁷ who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the assembly of Jehovah be not as sheep that have no shepherd.

¹⁸ And Jehovah said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and thou shalt lay thy hand upon him;

¹⁹ and thou shalt set him before Eleazar the priest, and before the whole assembly; and give him commandment before their eyes.

²⁰ And thou shalt put of thine honour upon him, that the whole assembly of the children of Israel may obey him.

²¹ And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him, by the judgment of the Urim before Jehovah: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, he, and all the children of Israel with him, even the whole assembly.

²² And Moses did as Jehovah had commanded him; and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before the whole assembly.

²³ And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him commandment, as Jehovah had said through Moses.

⁸ Remember Jesus Christ raised from among [the] dead, of [the] seed of David, according to my glad tidings,

⁹ in which I suffer even unto bonds as an evil-doer: but the word of God is not bound.

¹⁰ For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that *they* also may obtain the salvation which [is] in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

¹¹ The word [is] faithful; for if we have died together with [him], we shall also live together;

¹² if we endure, we shall also reign together; if we deny, *he* also will deny us;

¹³ if we are unfaithful, *he* abides faithful, for he cannot deny himself.