Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹² But thou, Jehovah, abidest for ever, and thy memorial from generation to generation.

¹³ *Thou* wilt rise up, thou wilt have mercy upon Zion: for it is the time to be gracious to her, for the set time is come.

¹⁴ For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust.

¹⁵ And the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

¹⁶ When Jehovah shall build up Zion, he will appear in his glory.

¹⁷ He will regard the prayer of the destitute one, and not despise their prayer.

¹⁸ This shall be written for the generation to come; and a people that shall be created shall praise Jah:

¹⁹ For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from the heavens hath Jehovah beheld the earth,

²⁰ To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to loose those that are appointed to die;

²¹ That the name of Jehovah may be declared in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem,

²² When the peoples shall be gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve Jehovah.

²³ He weakened my strength in the way, he shortened my days.

²⁴ I said, My God, take me not away in the midst of my days! … Thy years are from generation to generation.

²⁵ Of old hast thou founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands:

²⁶ *They* shall perish, but *thou* continuest; and all of them shall grow old as a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.

²⁷ But thou art the Same, and thy years shall have no end.

²⁸ The children of thy servants shall abide, and their seed shall be established before thee.

8 And Elisha had spoken to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, Rise up and go, thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn; for Jehovah has called for a famine, and it shall also come upon the land for seven years.

² And the woman rose up, and did according to the saying of the man of God, and went, she and her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

³ And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines; and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

⁴ And the king was talking with Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha has done.

⁵ And it came to pass as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

⁶ And the king asked the woman, and she told him. And the king appointed a certain chamberlain, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the revenue of the land since the day that she left the country even until now.

³⁶ But after certain days Paul said to Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city where we have announced the word of the Lord, [and see] how they are getting on.

³⁷ And Barnabas proposed to take with [them] John also, called Mark;

³⁸ but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, [going back] from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

³⁹ There arose therefore very warm feeling, so that they separated from one another; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed away to Cyprus;

⁴⁰ but Paul having chosen Silas went forth, committed by the brethren to the grace of God.

⁴¹ And he passed through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies.