Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹² ¶ But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance unto all generations.

¹³ Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion; for the time to favour her, the set time, is come.

¹⁴ For thy slaves love her stones and have compassion on the dust thereof.

¹⁵ So the Gentiles shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory

¹⁶ because the LORD shall have built up Zion, and he shall be seen in his glory.

¹⁷ He shall have regarded the prayer of those who are alone and destitute and not despised their prayer.

¹⁸ This shall be written for the generation to come, and the people who shall be created shall praise JAH.

¹⁹ For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from the heavens the LORD beheld the earth

²⁰ to hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death,

²¹ that they might declare the name of the LORD in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem,

²² when the people are gathered together as one and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

²³ ¶ He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

²⁴ I said, O my God, do not cut me off in the midst of my days; thy years are from generation to generation.

²⁵ Of old thou hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

²⁶ They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed:

²⁷ But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

²⁸ The sons of thy slaves shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

⁸ ¶ And it also happened that one day Elisha passed through Shunem, where there was an important woman, and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

⁹ And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us continually.

¹⁰ Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall, and let us set for him there a bed and a table and a stool and a lampstand so that when he comes to us, he shall turn in there.

¹¹ And it came to pass one day that he came there, and he turned into the chamber and slept there.

¹² Then he said to Gehazi, his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.

¹³ And he said unto Gehazi, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been diligent for us with all this care; what shall I do for thee? Dost thou have need that I speak for thee unto the king or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among my own people.

¹⁴ And he said, What then shall we do for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she has no child, and her husband is old.

¹⁵ Then he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.

¹⁶ And he said, At the appointed time, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, thou man of God, do not deceive thy handmaid.

¹⁷ But the woman conceived and gave birth to a son at the appointed time that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

³² And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was laid dead upon his bed.

³³ He went in therefore and shut the door upon both of them and prayed unto the LORD.

³⁴ Then he went up and lay upon the child and put his mouth upon his mouth and his eyes upon his eyes and his hands upon his hands; thus he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.

³⁵ Then he returned and walked through the house to and fro and went up and stretched himself upon him again; and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

³⁶ And he called Gehazi and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And as she was coming in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.

³⁷ Then she entered in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground and took up her son and went out.

14 ¶ And it came to pass in Iconium that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews and so spoke, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.

² But the disobedient Jews stirred up the Gentiles and corrupted their desire against the brethren.

³ With all this, they abode there a long time speaking with freedom in the Lord, who gave testimony unto the word of his grace and granted that signs and wonders be done by their hands.

⁴ But the multitude of the city was divided, and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

⁵ And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles and also of the Jews with their princes, to insult them and to stone them,

⁶ they were aware of it and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lies round about.

⁷ And there they preached the gospel.