Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

111 Praise ye the Lord! I will praise the Lord with my whole heart in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.

² The works of the Lord are great, sought out by all them that have pleasure therein.

³ His work is honorable and glorious, and His righteousness endureth for ever.

⁴ He hath made His wonderful works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and full of compassion.

⁵ He hath given meat unto them that fear Him; He will ever be mindful of His covenant.

⁶ He hath shown His people the power of His works, that He may give them the heritage of the heathen.

⁷ The works of His hands are verity and judgment; all His commandments are sure.

⁸ They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

⁹ He sent redemption unto His people; He hath commanded His covenant for ever; holy and reverend is His name.

¹⁰ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do His commandments. His praise endureth for ever!

³³ And the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

³⁴ “When ye have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession,

³⁵ and he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘It seemeth to me there is, as it were, a plague in the house,’

³⁶ then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.

³⁷ And he shall look on the plague, and behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, which in appearance are lower than the wall,

³⁸ then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days.

³⁹ And the priest shall come again the seventh day and shall look; and behold, if the plague is spread in the walls of the house,

⁴⁰ then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place outside the city.

⁴¹ And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off outside the city into an unclean place.

⁴² And they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other mortar and shall plaster the house.

⁴³ “And if the plague come again and break out in the house, after he hath taken away the stones and after he hath scraped the house and after it is plastered,

⁴⁴ then the priest shall come and look; and behold, if the plague is spread in the house, it is a consuming leprosy in the house; it is unclean.

⁴⁵ And he shall break down the house — the stones of it and the timber thereof and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

⁴⁶ Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.

⁴⁷ And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes, and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.

⁴⁸ “And if the priest shall come in and look upon it, and behold, the plague hath not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.

⁴⁹ And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

⁵⁰ And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water;

⁵¹ and he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

⁵² And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet;

⁵³ but he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.”

¹³ Hold fast to the form of sound words, which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ That good thing which was committed unto thee, keep, by the Holy Ghost who dwelleth in us.

¹⁵ This thou knowest, that all those who are in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

¹⁶ The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains;

¹⁷ but when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently and found me.

¹⁸ The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that Day! And in how many things he ministered unto me in Ephesus,thou knowest very well.