Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

26 Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my innocence. My trust has also been in the LORD. Therefore, I shall not slide.

² Test me, O LORD, and try me. Examine my core and my heart.

³ For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes. Therefore, I have walked in Your truth.

⁴ I have not dwelt with frivolous people, nor kept company with the deceitful.

⁵ I have hated the assembly of the evil and have not kept company with the wicked.

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence, O LORD, and surround Your altar.

⁷ So that I may declare with the voice of thanksgiving and set forth all Your wondrous works.

⁸ O LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house, and the place where Your honor dwells.

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a contentious man, and a man who strives with the whole Earth! I have neither lent with usury, nor have men lent to me with usury. Everyone curses me.

¹¹ The LORD said, “Surely your remnant shall have wealth. Surely I will cause your enemy to enjoin you in the time of trouble, and in the time of affliction.

¹² “Shall the iron break the iron, and the bronze, from the North?

¹³ “I will give your substance and your treasures to be plundered without payment because of all your sins within all your borders.

¹⁴ “And I will make you go with your enemies into a land that you do not know. For a fire is kindled in My anger, which shall burn you.”

¹⁴ And when Jesus came to Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother laid down, and sick of a fever.

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

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

¹⁷ so that which was spoken by Isaiah the Prophet might be fulfilled, which says, “He took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses.”