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 ¶ Then Elisha spoke unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household and sojourn wherever thou canst sojourn; for the LORD has called for a famine which shall come upon the land seven years.

² Then the woman arose and did as the man of God told her; and she went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

³ And it came to pass at the end of the seven years that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines, and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her lands.

⁴ And the king had talked with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha has done.

⁵ And as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. So Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

⁶ And when the king asked the woman, she told him. Then the king appointed unto her a eunuch, saying, Restore all that was hers and all the fruits of the lands since the day that she left the lands, even until now.

³⁶ ¶ And some days after, Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord and see how they do.

³⁷ And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.

³⁸ But Paul thought it not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia and did not go with them to the work.

³⁹ And the contention was so sharp between them that they departed asunder one from the other, and so Barnabas took Mark and sailed unto Cyprus;

⁴⁰ and Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.

⁴¹ And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the congregations. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}