Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
The Knowledge of God
For the music director. Of David. A psalm.[a]
139 O Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You understand my thought from afar.
3 You search out[b] my wandering and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word yet on my tongue,
but behold, O Yahweh, you know it completely.
5 You barricade me behind and in front,
and set your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.
It is set high; I cannot prevail against it.
13 Indeed you created my inward parts;[a]
you wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, because I am fearfully
and wonderfully made.[b]
Wonderful are your works,
and my soul knows it well.
15 My frame[c] was not hidden from you,
when I was created secretly,[d]
and intricately woven
in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my embryo,[e]
and in your book they all were written—
days fashioned for me when there was not one of them.
17 And to me, how precious[f] are your thoughts, O God;
how vast is their sum.
18 If I should count them,
they would outnumber the sand.
I awaken, and I am still with you.
16 Then Yahweh raised up leaders,[a] and they delivered them from the hand of their plunderers. 17 But they did not listen to their leaders,[b] but lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned away quickly from the way that their ancestors[c] went, who had obeyed the commandment of Yahweh; they did not do as their ancestors. 18 And when Yahweh raised leaders[d] for them, Yahweh was with the leader,[e] and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the leader,[f] for Yahweh was moved by their groaning because of their persecutors and oppressors. 19 But when the leader[g] died they relapsed and acted corruptly, more than their ancestors,[h] following other gods, serving them,[i] and bowing down to them. They would not give up their deeds or their stubborn ways. 20 So the anger of Yahweh burned[j] against Israel, and he said, “Because this people transgressed my covenant that I commanded their ancestors,[k] and have not obeyed my voice, 21 I will not again drive out anyone from before them from the nations that Joshua left when he died, 22 in order to test Israel whether or not they would observe the way of Yahweh, to walk in it just as their ancestors[l] did.” 23 So Yahweh left those nations; he did not drive them out at once, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
16 So Paul stood up,[a] and motioning with his[b] hand, he said, “Israelite men, and those who fear God, listen! 17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people during their[c] stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. 18 And for a period of time of about forty years, he put up with them in the wilderness. 19 And after[d] destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave their land to his people[e] as an inheritance. 20 This took[f] about four hundred and fifty years. And after these things, he gave them[g] judges until Samuel the prophet. 21 And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 And after[h] removing him, he raised up David for their king, about whom he also said, testifying, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man in accordance with my heart, who will carry out all my will.’[i] 23 From the descendants of this man, according to his promise, God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus. 24 Before his coming[j] John had publicly proclaimed[k] a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25 But while John was completing his[l] mission, he said, ‘What do you suppose me to be? I am not he! But behold, one is coming after me of whom I am not worthy to untie the sandals of his[m] feet!’
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