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!

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;

²⁴ and all the men of Israel when they see the man flee from his presence, and are greatly afraid.

²⁵ And the men of Israel say, `Have ye seen this man who is coming up? for, to reproach Israel he is coming up, and it hath been -- the man who smiteth him, the king doth enrich him with great riches, and his daughter he doth give to him, and his father's house doth make free in Israel.'

²⁶ And David speaketh unto the men who are standing by him, saying, `What is done to the man who smiteth this Philistine, and hath turned aside reproach from Israel? for who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine that he hath reproached the ranks of the living God?'

²⁷ And the people speak to him according to this word, saying, `Thus it is done to the man who smiteth him.'

²⁸ And Eliab, his eldest brother, heareth when he speaketh unto the men, and the anger of Eliab burneth against David, and he saith, `Why [is] this -- thou hast come down! and to whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I have known thy pride, and the evil of thy heart -- for, to see the battle thou hast come down.'

²⁹ And David saith, `What have I done now? is it not a word?'

³⁰ And he turneth round from him unto another, and saith according to this word, and the people return him word as the first word.

³¹ And the words which David hath spoken are heard, and they declare before Saul, and he receiveth him;

³² and David saith unto Saul, `Let no man's heart fall because of him, thy servant doth go, and hath fought with this Philistine.'

¹⁷ And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal,

¹⁸ and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;

¹⁹ and a messenger of the Lord through the night opened the doors of the prison, having also brought them forth, he said,

²⁰ `Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;'

²¹ and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,

²² and the officers having come, did not find them in the prison, and having turned back, they told,

²³ saying -- `The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened -- within we found no one.'

²⁴ And as the priest, and the magistrate of the temple, and the chief priests, heard these words, they were doubting concerning them to what this would come;

²⁵ and coming near, a certain one told them, saying -- `Lo, the men whom ye did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;'

²⁶ then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;