Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

30 I will extol Thee, O Lord, for Thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

² O Lord my God, I cried unto Thee, and Thou hast healed me.

³ O Lord, Thou hast brought up my soul from the grave; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

⁴ Sing unto the Lord, O ye His saints, and give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness.

⁵ For His anger endureth but a moment, and in His favor is life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

⁶ And in my prosperity I said, “I shall never be moved.”

⁷ Lord, by Thy favor Thou hast made my mountain to stand strong; when Thou didst hide Thy face, I was troubled.

⁸ I cried to Thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication:

⁹ “What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise Thee? Shall it declare Thy truth?

¹⁰ Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me; Lord, be Thou my helper!”

¹¹ Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

¹² to the end that my glory may sing praise to Thee and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto Thee for ever.

¹⁸ And when the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.

¹⁹ And he said unto his father, “My head, my head.” And he said to a lad, “Carry him to his mother.”

²⁰ And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

²¹ And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him and went out.

²² And she called unto her husband and said, “Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God and come back.”

²³ And he said, “Why wilt thou go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” And she said, “It shall be well.”

²⁴ Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward; slacken not thy riding for me unless I bid thee.”

²⁵ So she went and came unto the man of God to Mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, “Behold, yonder is that Shunammite.

²⁶ Run now, I pray thee, to meet her and say unto her, ‘Is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child?’” And she answered, “It is well.”

²⁷ And when she came to the man of God at the hill, she caught him by the feet; but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, “Let her alone, for her soul is vexed within her; and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.”

²⁸ Then she said, “Did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”

²⁹ Then he said to Gehazi, “Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way. If thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again. And lay my staff upon the face of the child.”

³⁰ And the mother of the child said, “As the Lord liveth and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.” And he arose and followed her.

³¹ And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice nor hearing. Therefore he went back to meet him, and told him, saying, “The child has not awakened.”

8 Moreover, brethren, we want you to know of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia:

² how in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

³ For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing to give of themselves,

⁴ praying us with earnest entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of ministering to the saints.

⁵ And this they did, not as we had hoped, but first they gave themselves to the Lord and unto us by the will of God,

⁶ insomuch that we urged Titus that, as he had begun, so he would finish in you the same grace also.

⁷ Therefore as ye abound in everything — in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us — see that ye abound in this grace also.