Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

96 Sing ye unto Jehovah a new song: sing unto Jehovah, all the earth.

² Sing unto Jehovah, bless his name; publish his salvation from day to day.

³ Declare his glory among the nations, his wondrous works among all the peoples.

⁴ For Jehovah is great and exceedingly to be praised; he is terrible above all gods.

⁵ For all the gods of the peoples are idols; but Jehovah made the heavens.

⁶ Majesty and splendour are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁷ Give unto Jehovah, ye families of peoples, give unto Jehovah glory and strength;

⁸ Give unto Jehovah the glory of his name; bring an oblation and come into his courts;

⁹ Worship Jehovah in holy splendour; tremble before him, all the earth.

³¹ If a man have sinned against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to adjure him, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

³² then hear thou in the heavens, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the righteous, giving him according to his righteousness.

³³ When thy people Israel are put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house;

³⁴ then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land that thou gavest unto their fathers.

³⁵ When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them;

³⁶ then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

³⁷ If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust, caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be:

³⁸ what prayer, what supplication soever be made by any man, of all thy people Israel, when they shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house;

³⁹ then hear thou in the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men),

⁴⁰ that they may fear thee all the days that they live upon the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

³¹ and descended to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbaths.

³² And they were astonished at his doctrine, for his word was with authority.

³³ And there was in the synagogue a man having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried with a loud voice,

³⁴ saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy [One] of God.

³⁵ And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out from him. And the demon, having thrown him down into the midst, came out from him without doing him any injury.

³⁶ And astonishment came upon all, and they spoke to one another, saying, What word [is] this? for with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.

³⁷ And a rumour went out into every place of the country round concerning him.