Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁰ I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

²¹ With whom my hand shall be established; and mine arm shall strengthen him.

²² No enemy shall exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him;

²³ But I will beat down his adversaries before his face, and will smite them that hate him.

²⁴ And my faithfulness and my loving-kindness shall be with him, and by my name shall his horn be exalted.

²⁵ And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

²⁶ *He* shall call unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation;

²⁷ And as to me, I will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸ My loving-kindness will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him;

²⁹ And I will establish his seed for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

³⁰ If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in mine ordinances;

³¹ If they profane my statutes, and keep not my commandments:

³² Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

³³ Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor belie my faithfulness;

³⁴ My covenant will I not profane, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

³⁵ Once have I sworn by my holiness; I will not lie unto David:

³⁶ His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me;

³⁷ It shall be established for ever as the moon, and the witness in the sky is firm. Selah.

14 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him a house.

² And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, for his kingdom was highly exalted, because of his people Israel.

¹⁶ But in Athens, while Paul was waiting for them, his spirit was painfully excited in him seeing the city given up to idolatry.

¹⁷ He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews, and those who worshipped, and in the market-place every day with those he met with.

¹⁸ But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection [to them].

¹⁹ And having taken hold on him they brought [him] to Areopagus, saying, Might we know what this new doctrine which is spoken by thee [is]?

²⁰ For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.

²¹ Now all [the] Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the news.

²² And Paul standing in the midst of Areopagus said, Athenians, in every way I see you given up to demon worship;

²³ for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing [him], him I announce to you.

²⁴ The God who has made the world and all things which are in it, *he*, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,

²⁵ nor is served by men's hands as needing something, himself giving to all life and breath and all things;

²⁶ and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained times and the boundaries of their dwelling,

²⁷ that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us:

²⁸ for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.

²⁹ Being therefore [the] offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, [the] graven form of man's art and imagination.

³⁰ God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,

³¹ because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by [the] man whom he has appointed, giving the proof [of it] to all [in] having raised him from among [the] dead.