Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David, the slave of the LORD, who spoke unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,

¹ ¶ I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

² The LORD is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

³ I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, so shall I be saved from my enemies.

⁴ The pain of death compassed me, and the rivers of Belial made me afraid.

⁵ The pain of Sheol compassed me about: the snares of death came before me.

⁶ In my distress I called upon the LORD and cried unto my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

⁷ Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of the mountains collapsed and were removed because he was wroth.

⁸ Smoke went up out of his nostrils, and fire devoured out of his mouth; coals were kindled by it.

⁹ He lowered the heavens and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

¹⁰ And he rode upon a cherub and flew: yea, he flew upon the wings of the wind.

¹¹ He made darkness his hiding place; in his tabernacle round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the heavens.

¹² At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

¹³ The LORD thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

¹⁴ He sent out his arrows and scattered them; he shot out lightnings and destroyed them.

¹⁵ Then the depths of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

¹⁶ He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

¹⁷ He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, even though they were too strong for me.

¹⁸ They were ready for me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my staff.

¹⁹ He brought me forth also into a wide place; he delivered me because he delighted in me.

¹¹ ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

¹² And there was rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

¹³ ¶ In that same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered into the ark,

¹⁴ they and every animal after its kind and all the beasts after their kind and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth after its kind and every fowl after its kind, every bird, every thing with wings.

¹⁵ And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the spirit of life.

¹⁶ And those that went in went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him, and the LORD shut him in.

¹⁷ ¶ And the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters multiplied and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

¹⁸ And the waters prevailed and multiplied greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

¹⁹ And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high mountains that were under all the heavens were covered.

²⁰ Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered.

²¹ ¶ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of beasts and of animals and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and every man;

²² all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life of all that was in the dry land died.

²³ And every substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle and the animals and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth, and only Noah remained alive and those that were with him in the ark.

²⁴ And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.

8 ¶ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters ceased;

² the fountains also of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

³ and the waters turned back and forth upon the earth, and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

⁴ ¶ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

⁵ And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

⁴ For if God did not forgive the angels that sinned, but cast them down into the deepest abyss {Gr. Tartarus} and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

⁵ and if he did not forgive the old world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven other persons, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

⁶ and if he condemned by destruction the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha, turning them into ashes, making them an example unto those that after should live without fear and reverence of God;

⁷ ¶ and delivered just Lot, who was persecuted by those abominable people because of their nefarious conversation;

⁸ (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, afflicted his righteous soul from day to day with the deeds of those unjust people);

⁹ the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished;

¹⁰ ¶ and chiefly those that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise dominion; presumptuous, arrogant, they are not afraid to speak evil of the higher powers;