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.
The Birth of Samuel
19 Then they arose early in the morning and worshiped before Yahweh and turned back and came to their house in (A)Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and (B)Yahweh remembered her. 20 Now it happened [a]in due time that Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “(C)Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”
21 Then the man Elkanah (D)went up with all his household to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice and pay his vow. 22 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “I will not go up until the young boy is weaned; then I will (E)bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh and (F)stay there forever.” 23 (G)And Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what is good in your eyes. Remain until you have weaned him; only (H)may Yahweh establish His word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. 24 Now when she had weaned him, (I)she took him up with her, with a three-year-old bull and one [b]ephah of flour and a jug of wine and brought him to (J)the house of Yahweh in Shiloh, although the boy was young. 25 Then (K)they slaughtered the bull and (L)brought the young boy to Eli. 26 And she said, “Oh, my lord! (M)As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to Yahweh. 27 (N)For this young boy I prayed, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of Him.
God Is for Us
31 (A)What then shall we say to these things? (B)If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who indeed (C)did not spare His own Son, but (D)delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring a charge against (E)God’s elect? (F)God is the one who justifies; 34 who is the one who (G)condemns? Christ Jesus is He who (H)died, yes, rather who was [a](I)raised, who is (J)at the right hand of God, who also (K)intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from (L)the love of [b]Christ? Will (M)affliction, or turmoil, or (N)persecution, or (O)famine, or (P)nakedness, or (Q)peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written,
“(R)For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were counted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly (S)conquer through (T)Him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither (U)death, nor life, nor (V)angels, nor rulers, nor (W)things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from (X)the love of God, which is (Y)in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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