Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

150 Praise ye Jah! Praise ye God in His holy place, Praise Him in the expanse of His strength.

² Praise Him in His mighty acts, Praise Him according to the abundance of His greatness.

³ Praise Him with blowing of trumpet, Praise Him with psaltery and harp.

⁴ Praise Him with timbrel and dance, Praise Him with stringed instruments and organ.

⁵ Praise Him with cymbals of sounding, Praise Him with cymbals of shouting.

⁶ All that doth breathe doth praise Jah! Praise ye Jah!

17 And the Philistines gather their camps to battle, and are gathered to Shochoh, which [is] to Judah, and encamp between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-Dammim;

² and Saul and the men of Israel have been gathered, and encamp by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array to meet the Philistines.

³ And the Philistines are standing on the mountain on this side, and the Israelites are standing on the mountain on that side, and the valley [is] between them.

⁴ And there goeth out a man of the duellists from the camps of the Philistines, Goliath [is] his name, from Gath; his height [is] six cubits and a span,

⁵ and a helmet of brass [is] on his head, and [with] a scaled coat of mail he [is] clothed, and the weight of the coat of mail [is] five thousand shekels of brass,

⁶ and a frontlet of brass [is] on his feet, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders,

⁷ and the wood of his spear [is] like a beam of weavers', and the flame of his spear [is] six hundred shekels of iron, and the bearer of the buckler is going before him.

⁸ And he standeth and calleth unto the ranks of Israel, and saith to them, `Why are ye come out to set in array the battle? [am] not I the Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose for you a man, and let him come down unto me;

⁹ if he be able to fight with me, and have smitten me, then we have been to you for servants; and if I am able for him, and have smitten him, then ye have been to us for servants, and have served us.'

¹⁰ And the Philistine saith, `I have reproached the ranks of Israel this day; give to me a man, and we fight together.'

¹¹ And Saul heareth -- and all Israel -- these words of the Philistine, and they are broken down and greatly afraid.

¹² And David [is] son of this Ephrathite of Beth-Lehem-Judah, whose name [is] Jesse, and he hath eight sons, and the man in the days of Saul hath become aged among men;

¹³ and the three eldest sons of Jesse go, they have gone after Saul to battle; and the name of his three sons who have gone into battle [are] Eliab the first-born, and his second Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

¹⁴ And David is the youngest, and the three eldest have gone after Saul,

¹⁵ and David is going and returning from Saul, to feed the flock of his father at Beth-Lehem.

¹⁶ And the Philistine draweth nigh, morning and evening, and stationeth himself forty days.

¹⁷ And Jesse saith to David his son, `Take, I pray thee, to thy brethren, an ephah of this roasted [corn], and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;

¹⁸ and these ten cuttings of the cheese thou dost take in to the head of the thousand, and thy brethren thou dost inspect for welfare, and their pledge dost receive.'

¹⁹ And Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel [are] in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

²⁰ And David riseth early in the morning, and leaveth the flock to a keeper, and lifteth up, and goeth, as Jesse commanded him, and he cometh in to the path, and to the force which is going out unto the rank, and they have shouted for battle;

²¹ and Israel and the Philistines set in array rank to meet rank.

²² And David letteth down the goods from off him on the hand of a keeper of the goods, and runneth into the rank, and cometh and asketh of his brethren of welfare.

²³ And he is speaking with them, and lo, a man of the duellists is coming up, Goliath the Philistine [is] his name, of Gath, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and he speaketh according to those words, and David heareth;

¹² And through the hands of the apostles came many signs and wonders among the people, and they were with one accord all in the porch of Solomon;

¹³ and of the rest no one was daring to join himself to them, but the people were magnifying them,

¹⁴ (and the more were believers added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,)

¹⁵ so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay [them] upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even [his] shadow might overshadow some one of them;

¹⁶ and there were coming together also the people of the cities round about to Jerusalem, bearing ailing persons, and those harassed by unclean spirits -- who were all healed.