Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

[A Psalm] of David; when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.

34 I will bless Jehovah at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

² My soul shall make its boast in Jehovah: the meek shall hear, and rejoice.

³ Magnify Jehovah with me, and let us exalt his name together.

⁴ I sought Jehovah, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

⁵ They looked unto him, and were enlightened, and their faces were not confounded.

⁶ This afflicted one called, and Jehovah heard [him], and saved him out of all his troubles.

⁷ The angel of Jehovah encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

⁸ Taste and see that Jehovah is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him!

¹⁹ Many are the adversities of the righteous, but Jehovah delivereth him out of them all:

²⁰ He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.

²¹ Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall bear their guilt.

²² Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants; and none of them that trust in him shall bear guilt.

¹² At that time Berodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

¹³ And Hezekiah hearkened to them, and shewed them all his treasure-house, the silver and the gold, and the spices and the fine oil, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found among his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah did not shew them.

¹⁴ Then came the prophet Isaiah to king Hezekiah and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to thee? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, from Babylon.

¹⁵ And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah said, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewn them.

¹⁶ And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah:

¹⁷ Behold, days come that all that is in thy house, and what thy fathers have laid up until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.

¹⁸ And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be chamberlains in the palace of the king of Babylon.

¹⁹ And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not so? if only there shall be peace and truth in my days!

7 For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from smiting the kings, and blessed him;

² to whom Abraham gave also the tenth portion of all; first being interpreted King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is King of peace;

³ without father, without mother, without genealogy; having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but assimilated to the Son of God, abides a priest continually.

⁴ Now consider how great this [personage] was, to whom [even] the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils.

⁵ And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:

⁶ but he who has no genealogy from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.

⁷ But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the better.

⁸ And here dying men receive tithes; but there [one] of whom the witness is that he lives;

⁹ and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received tithes, has been made to pay tithes.

¹⁰ For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him.