Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁹ The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

¹⁰ And they that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee; for Thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek Thee.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord who dwelleth in Zion! Declare among the people His doings.

¹² When He maketh inquisition for blood, He remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

¹³ Have mercy upon me, O Lord! Consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴ that I may show forth all Thy praise at the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will rejoice in Thy salvation.

¹⁵ The heathen have sunk down into the pit that they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

¹⁶ The Lord is known by the judgment which He executeth; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah

¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten; the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

¹⁹ Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail; let the heathen be judged in Thy sight.

²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord; that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah

18 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

² And Saul took him that day and would let him go home no more to his father’s house.

³ Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

⁴ And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword and to his bow and to his girdle.

²⁵ “And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress among nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring.

²⁶ Men’s hearts will fail them for fear and for looking upon those things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

²⁷ And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

²⁸ And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.”