Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

33 Sing, ye righteous, in Jehovah, For upright ones praise [is] comely.

² Give ye thanks to Jehovah with a harp, With psaltery of ten strings sing praise to Him,

³ Sing ye to Him a new song, Play skilfully with shouting.

⁴ For upright [is] the word of Jehovah, And all His work [is] in faithfulness.

⁵ Loving righteousness and judgment, Of the kindness of Jehovah is the earth full.

⁶ By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

⁷ Gathering as a heap the waters of the sea, Putting in treasuries the depths.

⁸ Afraid of Jehovah are all the earth, Of Him are all the inhabitants of the world afraid.

⁹ For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth.

¹⁰ Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

¹¹ The counsel of Jehovah to the age standeth, The thoughts of His heart to all generations.

¹² O the happiness of the nation whose God [is] Jehovah, Of the people He did choose, For an inheritance to Him.

¹⁷ And the king of Sodom goeth out to meet him (after his turning back from the smiting of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings who [are] with him), unto the valley of Shaveh, which [is] the king's valley.

¹⁸ And Melchizedek king of Salem hath brought out bread and wine, and he [is] priest of God Most High;

¹⁹ and he blesseth him, and saith, `Blessed [is] Abram to God Most High, possessing heaven and earth;

²⁰ and blessed [is] God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all.

²¹ And the king of Sodom saith unto Abram, `Give to me the persons, and the substance take to thyself,'

²² and Abram saith unto the king of Sodom, `I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessing heaven and earth --

²³ from a thread even unto a shoe-latchet I take not of anything which thou hast, that thou say not, I -- I have made Abram rich;

²⁴ save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who have gone with me -- Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre -- they take their portion.'

28 And having been saved, then they knew that the island is called Melita,

² and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;

³ but Paul having gathered together a quantity of sticks, and having laid [them] upon the fire, a viper -- out of the heat having come -- did fasten on his hand.

⁴ And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, `Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;'

⁵ he then, indeed, having shaken off the beast into the fire, suffered no evil,

⁶ and they were expecting him to be about to be inflamed, or to fall down suddenly dead, and they, expecting [it] a long time, and seeing nothing uncommon happening to him, changing [their] minds, said he was a god.

⁷ And in the neighbourhood of that place were lands of the principal man of the island, by name Publius, who, having received us, three days did courteously lodge [us];

⁸ and it came to pass, the father of Publius with feverish heats and dysentery pressed, was laid, unto whom Paul having entered, and having prayed, having laid [his] hands on him, healed him;

⁹ this, therefore, being done, the others also in the island having infirmities were coming and were healed;

¹⁰ who also with many honours did honour us, and we setting sail -- they were lading [us] with the things that were necessary.