Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

71 In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be put to confusion.

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, whereunto I may continually resort; Thou hast given commandment to save me, for 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 unrighteous and cruel man.

⁵ For Thou art my hope, O Lord God; Thou art my trust from my youth.

⁶ By Thee have I been held from the womb; Thou art He that took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise shall be continually of Thee.

34 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty 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 of the high places, and the Asherah poles, and the carved images, and the molten images.

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

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

⁶ And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

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

⁴⁴ While Peter was yet speaking these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all those who heard the Word.

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

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

⁴⁷ “Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we?”

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