Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

85 A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

² Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee.

⁸ There is none among the gods like unto thee, O Lord: and there is none according to thy works.

⁹ All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.

¹⁰ For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

¹¹ Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.

¹² I will praise thee, O Lord my God: with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever:

¹³ For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

⁴ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

⁵ Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.

⁶ And I said: Ah, ah, ah, Lord God: behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child.

⁷ And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee, thou shalt speak.

⁸ Be not afraid at their presence: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

⁹ And the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the Lord said to me: Behold I have given my words in thy mouth:

¹⁰ Lo, I have set thee this day over the nations, and over the kingdoms, to root up, and pull down, and to waste, and to destroy, and to build, and to plant.

¹⁹ Now they who had been dispersed by the persecution that arose on occasion of Stephen, went about as far as Phenice and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to none, but to the Jews only.

²⁰ But some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they were entered into Antioch, spoke also to the Greeks, preaching the Lord Jesus.

²¹ And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believing, were converted to the Lord.

²² And the tidings came to the ears of the church that was at Jerusalem, touching these things: and they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch.

²³ Who, when he was come, and had seen the grace of God, rejoiced: and he exhorted them all with purpose of heart to continue in the Lord.

²⁴ For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith. And a great multitude was added to the Lord.

²⁵ And Barnabas went to Tarsus to seek Saul: whom, when he had found, he brought to Antioch.

²⁶ And they conversed there in the church a whole year; and they taught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were first named Christians.