Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ In thee, O LORD, have I waited; let me not be forever put to shame.

² Deliver me in thy righteousness and cause me to escape; incline thine ear unto me and save me.

³ Be thou my strong habitation unto which I may continually resort; thou hast given a commandment that I should be saved because thou art my rock and my fortress.

⁴ Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the perverse and violent man.

⁵ For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD; thou art my security from my youth.

⁶ By thee have I been sustained from the womb; thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels; my praise has been continually of thee.

34 ¶ Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.

² And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of David, his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

³ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David, his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the groves and the graven images and the molten images.

⁴ And they broke down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the images of the sun, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves and the graven images and the molten images, he broke in pieces and made dust of them and scattered it upon the graves of those that had sacrificed unto them.

⁵ And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

⁶ He did the same in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their swords round about.

⁷ And when he had broken down the altars and the groves and had beaten the graven images into powder and cut down all the idols of the sun throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

⁴⁴ ¶ While Peter yet spoke these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word.

⁴⁵ And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, that also on the Gentiles the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out.

⁴⁶ For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then Peter answered,

⁴⁷ Can anyone forbid water that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?

⁴⁸ And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they begged him to tarry certain days.