Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Prayer of David.

86 Incline thine ear, Jehovah, answer me; for I am afflicted and needy.

² Keep my soul, for I am godly; O thou my God, save thy servant who confideth in thee.

³ Be gracious unto me, O Lord; for unto thee do I call all the day.

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

⁵ For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.

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

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

⁸ Among the gods there is none like unto thee, Lord, and there is nothing like unto thy works.

⁹ All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name.

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

¹¹ Teach me thy way, Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

¹² I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart; and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

¹³ For great is thy loving-kindness toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

¹⁴ O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assembly of the violent seek after my soul, and they have not set thee before them.

¹⁵ But thou, Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth.

¹⁶ Turn toward me, and be gracious unto me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

¹⁷ Shew me a token for good, that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed; for thou, Jehovah, hast helped me and comforted me.

²⁷ As they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Tell the servant to pass on before us (and he passed on), but stand thou still now, that I may cause thee to hear the word of God.

10 Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because Jehovah has anointed thee prince over his inheritance?

² When thou goest from me to-day, thou shalt meet two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to thee, The asses are found which thou wentest to seek, and behold, thy father has dismissed the matter of the asses, and is anxious about you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

³ And thou shalt go on forward from thence, and shalt come to the oak of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God, to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three cakes of bread, and another carrying a flask of wine.

⁴ And they will ask after thy welfare, and give thee two loaves, which thou shalt receive of their hands.

⁵ After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where are the outposts of the Philistines; and it shall come to pass, when thou comest thither, into the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with lute and tambour and pipe and harp before them; and they themselves prophesying.

⁶ And the Spirit of Jehovah will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

⁷ And it shall be, when these signs shall come to thee, thou shalt do as thy hand shall find; for God is with thee.

⁸ And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come down to thee, to offer up burnt-offerings, [and] to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings: seven days shalt thou wait, until I come to thee and inform thee what thou shalt do.

¹⁴ Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation [is there] between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?

¹⁵ and what consent of Christ with Beliar, or what part for a believer along with an unbeliever?

¹⁶ and what agreement of God's temple with idols? for *ye* are [the] living God's temple; according as God has said, I will dwell among them, and walk among [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people.

¹⁷ Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith [the] Lord, and touch not [what is] unclean, and *I* will receive you;

¹⁸ and I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith [the] Lord Almighty.

7 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.