Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Where Can I Go from Your Spirit?
For the choir director. Of David. A Psalm.
139 O Yahweh, You have (A)searched me and known me.
2 You (B)know [a]when I sit down and [b]when I rise up;
You (C)understand my thought from afar.
3 You [c](D)scrutinize my [d]path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.
4 [e]Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O Yahweh, You (E)know it all.
5 You have (F)enclosed me behind and before,
And You have (G)put Your hand upon me.
6 Such (H)knowledge is (I)too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
13 For You (A)formed my [a]inward parts;
You (B)wove me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give thanks to You, for [b]I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
(C)Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
15 My [c](D)frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And (E)intricately woven in the (F)depths of the earth;
16 Your (G)eyes have seen my unshaped substance;
And in (H)Your book all of them were written
The (I)days that were formed for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
Yahweh Raises Up Judges
16 (A)Then Yahweh raised up judges [a]who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges either, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way (B)in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of Yahweh; they did not do as their fathers. 18 Now when Yahweh raised up judges for them, (C)Yahweh was with the judge and saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for Yahweh was (D)moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and suppressed them. 19 But it happened when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways. 20 (E)So the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has trespassed against My covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to My voice, 21 (F)I also will no longer dispossess before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died, 22 in order to (G)test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk in it as their fathers [b]did, or not.” 23 So Yahweh allowed those nations to rest, not dispossessing them quickly; and He did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
16 So Paul stood up, and (A)motioning with his hand said,
“Men of Israel, and (B)you who fear God, listen: 17 The God of this people Israel (C)chose our fathers and [a](D)lifted up the people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm (E)He led them out from it. 18 And for (F)a period of about forty years (G)He put up with them in the wilderness. 19 (H)And when He destroyed (I)seven nations in the land of Canaan, He (J)distributed their land as an inheritance—all of which took (K)about 450 years. 20 After these things He (L)gave them judges until (M)Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they (N)asked for a king, and God gave them (O)Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 And after He had (P)removed him, He raised up David to be their king, about whom He also said, bearing witness, ‘(Q)I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My [b]will.’ 23 (R)From the seed of this man, (S)according to promise, God has brought to Israel (T)a Savior, Jesus, 24 after (U)John had preached before [c]His coming a (V)baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25 And as John (W)was fulfilling his course, (X)he kept saying, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But behold, one is coming after me of whom I am not worthy to untie the sandals of His feet.’
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