Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

95 Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation;

² Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout aloud unto him with psalms.

³ For Jehovah is a great God, and a great king above all gods.

⁴ In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also:

⁵ The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry [land].

⁶ Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

⁷ For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,

⁸ Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah, in the wilderness;

⁹ When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

¹⁰ Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

¹¹ So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest.

16 And Jehovah said to Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.

² And Samuel said, How shall I go? if Saul hear [it], he will kill me. And Jehovah said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Jehovah.

³ And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will tell thee what thou shalt do; and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.

⁴ And Samuel did what Jehovah said, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city came trembling to meet him, and said, Dost thou come peaceably?

⁵ And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice to Jehovah. Hallow yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he hallowed Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

⁶ And it came to pass when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely Jehovah's anointed is before him.

⁷ But Jehovah said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth; for man looketh upon the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh upon the heart.

⁸ Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither has Jehovah chosen this one.

⁹ Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, Neither has Jehovah chosen this one.

¹⁰ And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, Jehovah has not chosen these.

¹¹ And Samuel said to Jesse, Are these all the young men? And he said, There is yet the youngest remaining, and behold, he is feeding the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and fetch him; for we will not sit at table till he come hither.

¹² And he sent and brought him in. And he was ruddy, and besides of a lovely countenance and beautiful appearance. And Jehovah said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.

¹³ And Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren. And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

5 The elders which [are] among you I exhort, who [am their] fellow-elder and witness of the sufferings of the Christ, who also [am] partaker of the glory about to be revealed:

² shepherd the flock of God which [is] among you, exercising oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily;

³ not as lording it over your possessions, but being models for the flock.

⁴ And when the chief shepherd is manifested ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

⁵ Likewise [ye] younger, be subject to [the] elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against [the] proud, but to [the] humble gives grace.