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Psalm 48

¹Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
²Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
³God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
⁴For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
⁵They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
⁶Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
⁷Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
⁸As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
⁹We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
¹⁰According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
¹¹Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
¹²Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
¹³Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
¹⁴For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

Psalm 117

¹O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
²For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.

54Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
²Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
³For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
⁴Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
⁵For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
⁶For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
⁷For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
⁸In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
⁹For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
¹⁰For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.

²³And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
²⁴And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
²⁵And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
²⁶Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
²⁷For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
²⁸Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
²⁹And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.
³⁰And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
³¹Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.