Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

139 Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].

² *Thou* knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;

³ Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;

⁴ For there is not yet a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

⁵ Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.

⁶ O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.

¹³ For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.

¹⁴ I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.

¹⁵ My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.

¹⁶ Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all [my members] were written; [during many] days were they fashioned, when [as yet] there was none of them.

¹⁷ But how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

¹⁸ [If] I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.

⁶ And Joshua dismissed the people, and the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.

⁷ And the people served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders whose days were prolonged after Joshua, who had seen all the great works of Jehovah, which he had done for Israel.

⁸ And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, a hundred and ten years old.

⁹ And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-Heres, in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the mountain of Gaash.

¹⁰ And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, which knew not Jehovah, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

¹¹ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baals.

¹² And they forsook Jehovah the God of their fathers, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked Jehovah to anger.

¹³ And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

¹⁴ And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about; and they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

¹⁵ Whithersoever they went out the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah had said, and as Jehovah had sworn unto them; and they were greatly distressed.

10 But I myself, Paul, entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ, who, as to appearance, [when present] [am] mean among you, but absent am bold towards you;

² but I beseech that present I may not be bold with the confidence with which I think to be daring towards some who think of us as walking according to flesh.

³ For walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.

⁴ For the arms of our warfare [are] not fleshly, but powerful according to God to [the] overthrow of strongholds;

⁵ overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ;

⁶ and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.

⁷ Do ye look at what concerns appearance? If any one has confidence in himself that he is of Christ, let him think this again in himself, that even as he [is] of Christ, so also [are] we.

⁸ For and if I should boast even somewhat more abundantly of our authority, which the Lord has given [to us] for building up and not for your overthrowing, I shall not be put to shame;

⁹ that I may not seem as if I was frightening you by letters:

¹⁰ because his letters, he says, [are] weighty and strong, but his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught.

¹¹ Let such a one think this, that such as we are in word by letters [when] absent, such also present in deed.