Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

20 Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob protect thee;

² May he send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;

³ Remember all thine oblations, and accept thy burnt-offering; Selah.

⁴ Grant thee according to thy heart, and fulfil all thy counsels.

⁵ We will triumph in thy salvation, and in the name of our God will we set up our banners. Jehovah fulfil all thy petitions!

⁶ Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed; he answereth him from the heavens of his holiness, with the saving strength of his right hand.

⁷ Some make mention of chariots, and some of horses, but we of the name of Jehovah our God.

⁸ They are bowed down and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright.

⁹ Save, Jehovah! Let the king answer us in the day we call.

25 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

² Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me a heave-offering: of every one whose heart prompteth him, ye shall take my heave-offering.

³ And this is the heave-offering that ye shall take of them: gold, and silver, and copper,

⁴ and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats' [hair],

⁵ and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins; and acacia-wood;

⁶ oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of fragrant drugs;

⁷ onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

⁸ And they shall make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

⁹ According to all that I shall shew thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the utensils thereof, even so shall ye make [it].

¹⁰ And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood; two cubits and a half the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

¹¹ And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold: inside and outside shalt thou overlay it; and shalt make upon it a border of gold round about.

¹² And cast four rings of gold for it, and put [them] at the four corners thereof, that two rings may be upon the one side thereof and two rings upon the other side thereof.

¹³ And make staves of acacia-wood and overlay them with gold.

¹⁴ And put the staves into the rings upon the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

¹⁵ The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not come out from it.

¹⁶ And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony that I shall give thee.

¹⁷ And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

¹⁸ And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; [of] beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat.

¹⁹ And make one cherub at the end of the one side, and one cherub at the end of the other side; out of the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubim at the two ends thereof.

²⁰ And the cherubim shall stretch out [their] wings over it, covering over with their wings the mercy-seat, and their faces opposite to one another: toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be [turned].

²¹ And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above on the ark, and shalt put in the ark the testimony that I shall give thee.

²² And there will I meet with thee, and will speak with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, everything that I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

2 And *I*, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

² For I did not judge [it well] to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and *him* crucified.

³ And *I* was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;

⁴ and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of [the] Spirit and of power;

⁵ that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power.

⁶ But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.

⁷ But we speak God's wisdom in [a] mystery, that hidden [wisdom] which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory:

⁸ which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;)

⁹ but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

¹⁰ but God has revealed to us by [his] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.