Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

BETH.

⁹ ¶ With what shall a young man cleanse his way? when he shall keep thy word.

¹⁰ ¶ With my whole heart I have sought thee; O let me not err from thy commandments.

¹¹ ¶ Thy spoken word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.

¹² ¶ Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.

¹³ ¶ With my lips I have declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

¹⁴ I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies as above all riches.

¹⁵ I will meditate in thy precepts and consider thy ways.

¹⁶ I will delight myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy words.

44 ¶ Yet now hear, O Jacob my slave and Israel, whom I have chosen:

² Thus saith the LORD that made thee and formed thee from the womb, who will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my slave, and thou, Jesurun, {Heb. the upright one} whom I have chosen.

³ For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine offspring:

⁴ And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

⁵ One shall say, I am the LORD’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD and surname himself by the name of Israel.

⁶ Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel and his redeemer, the LORD of the hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

⁷ And who shall call as I do and declare this in advance and set it in order for me, since I made the people of the world? Let them declare unto them the things that are near and the things that shall come.

⁸ Do not fear, neither be afraid; have I not caused thee to hear from of old and declared unto thee beforehand that which was to come? Then ye are my witnesses that there is no God but me, and there is no Strong One that I do not know.

¹⁴ ¶ Then Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea and all ye that dwell in Jerusalem, be this known unto you and hearken to my words;

¹⁵ for these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

¹⁶ But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel:

¹⁷ And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

¹⁸ and for certain on my slaves and on my handmaids I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy;

¹⁹ and I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke;

²⁰ the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood before that great and notable day of the Lord shall come;

²¹ and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

²² Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know,

²³ him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain,

²⁴ whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be held by it.