Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Song of degrees.

132 Jehovah, remember for David all his affliction;

² How he swore unto Jehovah, vowed unto the Mighty One of Jacob:

³ I will not come into the tent of my house, I will not go up to the couch of my bed;

⁴ I will not give sleep to mine eyes, slumber to mine eyelids,

⁵ Until I find out a place for Jehovah, habitations for the Mighty One of Jacob. …

⁶ Behold, we heard of it at Ephratah, we found it in the fields of the wood.

⁷ Let us go into his habitations, let us worship at his footstool.

⁸ Arise, Jehovah, into thy rest, thou and the ark of thy strength.

⁹ Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let thy saints shout for joy.

¹⁰ For thy servant David's sake, turn not away the face of thine anointed.

¹¹ Jehovah hath sworn [in] truth unto David; he will not turn from it: Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne;

¹² If thy children keep my covenant, and my testimonies which I will teach them, their children also for evermore shall sit upon thy throne.

¹³ For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his dwelling:

¹⁴ This is my rest for ever; here will I dwell, for I have desired it.

¹⁵ I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her needy ones with bread;

¹⁶ And I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

¹⁷ There will I cause the horn of David to bud forth; I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

¹⁸ His enemies will I clothe with shame; but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

22 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozcath.

² And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand nor to the left.

³ And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [that] the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Jehovah, saying,

⁴ Go up to Hilkijah the high priest, that he may sum up the money which is brought into the house of Jehovah, which the doorkeepers have gathered of the people,

⁵ and let them give it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and let them give it to those that do the work in the house of Jehovah, to repair the breaches of the house,

⁶ to the carpenters and the builders and the masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

⁷ But no reckoning was made with them of the money that was given into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

⁸ And Hilkijah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkijah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

⁹ And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again and said, Thy servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of Jehovah.

¹⁰ And Shaphan the scribe informed the king saying, Hilkijah the priest has given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

⁵⁴ And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.

⁵⁵ But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw [the] glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,

⁵⁶ and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.

⁵⁷ And they cried out with a loud voice, and held their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;

⁵⁸ and having cast [him] out of the city, they stoned [him]. And the witnesses laid aside their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.

⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, praying, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

⁶⁰ And kneeling down, he cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And having said this, he fell asleep.

8 And Saul was consenting to his being killed. And on that day there arose a great persecution against the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and all were scattered into the countries of Judaea and Samaria except the apostles.