Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

A Psalm for Solomon.

¹ ¶ Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.

² ¶ He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment.

³ The mountains shall bring peace to the people and the little hills by righteousness.

⁴ He shall judge the poor of the people; he shall save the children of the destitute and shall break in pieces the violent.

⁵ They shall fear thee along with the sun and before the moon throughout all generations.

⁶ He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass as the dew that waters the earth.

⁷ In his days shall righteousness flourish and abundance of peace until there is no longer any moon.

¹⁸ ¶ Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, the only one who does wondrous things

¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name for ever, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

¹⁹ For the people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he who has mercy shall show mercy unto thee; at the voice of thy cry when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

²⁰ But the Lord shall give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction; thy rain shall never more be taken away, but thine eyes shall see thy rain:

²¹ Then thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, that ye not turn to the right hand and that ye not turn to the left hand.

²² Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver and the protection of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Go away from here.

²³ Then he shall give the rain unto thy planting when thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the fruit of the earth, and it shall be fat and fertile: in that day thy cattle shall feed in large pastures.

²⁴ Thine oxen and thine asses that work the ground shall eat clean grain, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

²⁵ And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers shall fall.

²⁶ Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of his people and heals the stroke of their wound.

¹⁶ Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel and ye that fear God hearken.

¹⁷ The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it.

¹⁸ And for the time of about forty years, he suffered their manners in the wilderness.

¹⁹ And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

²⁰ And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

²¹ And afterward they asked for a king, and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

²² And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king, to whom also he gave testimony, saying, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who shall fulfil all my will.

²³ Of this man’s seed has God according to his promise raised up Jesus as Saviour unto Israel:

²⁴ John, having first proclaimed before his coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

²⁵ And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there comes one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.