Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

115 Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, But to Thy name give honour, For Thy kindness, for Thy truth.

² Why do the nations say, `Where, pray, [is] their God.

³ And our God [is] in the heavens, All that He hath pleased He hath done.

⁴ Their idols [are] silver and gold, work of man's hands,

⁵ A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,

⁶ Ears they have, and they hear not, A nose they have, and they smell not,

⁷ Their hands, but they handle not, Their feet, and they walk not;

⁸ Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

⁹ O Israel, trust in Jehovah, `Their help and their shield [is] He.'

¹⁰ O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah, `Their help and their shield [is] He.'

¹¹ Ye fearing Jehovah, trust in Jehovah, `Their help and their shield [is] He.'

¹² Jehovah hath remembered us, He blesseth, He blesseth the house of Israel, He blesseth the house of Aaron,

¹³ He blesseth those fearing Jehovah, The small with the great.

¹⁴ Jehovah addeth to you, to you, and to your sons.

¹⁵ Blessed [are] ye of Jehovah, maker of heaven and earth,

¹⁶ The heavens -- the heavens [are] Jehovah's, And the earth He hath given to sons of men,

¹⁷ The dead praise not Jah, Nor any going down to silence.

¹⁸ And we, we bless Jah, From henceforth, and unto the age. Praise ye Jah!

¹⁵ and Jehovah had uncovered the ear of Samuel one day before the coming of Saul, saying,

¹⁶ `At this time tomorrow, I send unto thee a man out of the land of Benjamin -- and thou hast anointed him for leader over My people Israel, and he hath saved My people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have seen My people, for its cry hath come in unto Me.'

¹⁷ When Samuel hath seen Saul, then hath Jehovah answered him, `Lo, the man of whom I have spoken unto thee; this [one] doth restrain My people.'

¹⁸ And Saul draweth nigh to Samuel in the midst of the gate, and saith, `Declare, I pray thee, to me, where [is] this -- the seer's house?'

¹⁹ And Samuel answereth Saul and saith, `I [am] the seer; go up before me into the high place, and ye have eaten with me to-day, and I have sent thee away in the morning, and all that [is] in thy heart I declare to thee.

²⁰ As to the asses which are lost to thee this day three days, set not thy heart to them, for they have been found; and to whom [is] all the desire of Israel?' is it not to thee and to all thy father's house?'

²¹ And Saul answereth and saith, `Am not I a Benjamite -- of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? and why hast thou spoken unto me according to this word?'

²² And Samuel taketh Saul, and his young man, and bringeth them in to the chamber, and giveth to them a place at the head of those called; and they [are] about thirty men.

²³ And Samuel saith to the cook, `Give the portion which I gave to thee, of which I said unto thee, `Set it by thee?'

²⁴ (and the cook lifteth up the leg, and that which [is] on it, and setteth before Saul), and he saith, `Lo, that which is left; set [it] before thee -- eat, for to this appointed season it is kept for thee, saying, The people I have called;' and Saul eateth with Samuel on that day.

²⁵ And they come down from the high place to the city, and he speaketh with Saul on the roof.

²⁶ And they rise early, and it cometh to pass, at the ascending of the dawn, that Samuel calleth unto Saul, on the roof, saying, `Rise, and I send thee away;' and Saul riseth, and they go out, both of them -- he and Samuel, without.

²⁷ They are going down in the extremity of the city, and Samuel hath said unto Saul, `Say to the young man that he pass on before us (and he passeth on), and thou, stand at this time, and I cause thee to hear the word of God.'

10 And Samuel taketh the vial of the oil, and poureth on his head, and kisseth him, and saith, `Is it not because Jehovah hath appointed thee over His inheritance for leader?

3 Stedfast [is] the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

² it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

³ not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

⁴ his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

⁵ (and if any one his own house [how] to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

⁶ not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

⁷ and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

⁸ Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

⁹ having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience,