Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

26 Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in mine integrity. I have also trusted in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.

² Examine me, O Lord, and test me; try my reins and my heart.

³ For Thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes, and I have walked in Thy truth.

⁴ I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I consort with dissemblers.

⁵ I have hated the congregation of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

⁶ I will wash mine hands in innocence; so will I compass Thine altar, O Lord,

⁷ that I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all Thy wondrous works.

⁸ Lord, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, and the place where Thine honor dwelleth.

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor have men lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

¹¹ The Lord said, “Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to deal with thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

¹² “Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

¹³ Thy substance and thy treasures will I give as the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

¹⁴ And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not; for a fire is kindled in Mine anger, which shall burn upon you.”

¹⁴ And when Jesus had come into Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother lying and sick with a fever.

¹⁵ And He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose and ministered unto them.

¹⁶ When the evening had come, they brought unto Him many who were possessed with devils, and He cast out the spirits with His word and healed all who were sick,

¹⁷ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, who said, “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”