Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ ¶ I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

² In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my sore bled in the night and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted.

¹¹ ¶ I remembered the works of JAH; therefore I shall remember thy wonders of old.

¹² I meditated also on all thy works and spoke of thy doings.

¹³ Thy way, O God, is in holiness; who is so great a God as our God?

¹⁴ Thou art the God that doest wonders; thou hast declared thy strength among the peoples.

¹⁵ Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

¹⁶ The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid; the depths also were troubled.

¹⁷ The clouds poured out floods of waters; the heavens thundered; thy bolts of lightning also went forth.

¹⁸ The voice of thy thunder was all around; the lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook.

¹⁹ Thy way was in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps were not known.

²⁰ Thou didst lead thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

¹³ And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and besought him and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life and the life of these fifty thy slaves, be precious in thy sight.

¹⁴ Behold, fire has come down from heaven and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties; therefore, let my soul now be precious in thy sight.

¹⁵ Then the angel of the LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him; do not be afraid of him. And he arose and went down with him unto the king.

¹⁶ And he said unto him, Thus hath the LORD said, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron, peradventure is there no God in Israel to enquire of his word? Therefore, thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

¹⁷ So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram (son of Ahab) reigned in his stead, in the second year of Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, because Ahaziah had no son.

¹⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

³ And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head today? And he said, Yes, I know it; be silent.

⁴ And Elijah said unto him again, Elisha, tarry here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD lives and as thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.

⁵ And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head today? And he answered, Yes, I know it; be silent.

²¹ And he straitly charged them and commanded them not to tell anyone this,

²² saying, The Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders and of the princes of the priests and scribes and be slain and be raised the third day.

²³ And he said to them all, If anyone will come after me, let them deny themself and take up their cross {Gr. stauros – stake} daily and follow me.

²⁴ For whosoever desires to save his soul shall lose it, but whosoever will lose his soul for my sake, the same shall save it.

²⁵ For what is a man advantaged if he gains the whole world, having destroyed himself or having suffered the loss of himself?

²⁶ For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed when he shall come in his own glory and in his Father’s and of the holy angels.

²⁷ But I tell you in truth, there are some standing here who shall not taste of death until they see the kingdom of God.