Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

99 The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble! He sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved!

² The Lord is great in Zion, and He is high above all the people.

³ Let them praise Thy great and fearsome name, for it is holy.

⁴ The King’s strength also loveth judgment; Thou dost establish equity; Thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

⁵ Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at His footstool, for He is holy!

⁶ Moses and Aaron are among His priests, and Samuel among them that call upon His name; they called upon the Lord, and He answered them.

⁷ He spoke unto them in the cloudy pillar; they kept His testimonies and the ordinance that He gave them.

⁸ Thou didst answer them, O Lord our God; Thou wast a God that forgavest them, though Thou took vengeance on their inventions.

⁹ Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

9 “Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over the Jordan this day to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

² a people great and tall, the children of the Anakim, whom thou knowest and of whom thou hast heard say, ‘Who can stand before the children of Anak!’

³ Understand therefore this day that the Lord thy God is He who goeth over before thee as a consuming fire. He shall destroy them, and He shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.

⁴ Speak not thou in thine heart, after the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, ‘For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land’; but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.

⁵ Not for thy righteousness or for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go to possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that He may perform the word which the Lord swore unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

¹¹ And as the lame man who had been healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch, which is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.

¹² And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, “Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man walk?

¹³ The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified His Son Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied Him in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let Him go.

¹⁴ But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you,

¹⁵ and killed the Prince of Life whom God hath raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

¹⁶ And His name, through faith in His name, hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know. Yea, the faith which is by Him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.