Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

35 Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself.

² The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes.

³ For in his sight he hath done deceitfully, that his iniquity may be found unto hatred.

⁴ The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.

⁵ He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.

⁶ O Lord, thy mercy is in heaven, and thy truth reacheth, even to the clouds.

⁷ Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:

⁸ O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! But the children of men shall put their trust under the covert of thy wings.

⁹ They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure.

¹⁰ For with thee is the fountain of life; and in thy light we shall see light.

29 Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremias the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the ancients that were carried into captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

² After that Jechonias the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, and the princes of Juda, and of Jerusalem, and the craftsman, and the engravers were departed out of Jerusalem:

³ By the hand of Elasa the son of Saphan, and Gamarias the son of Helcias, whom Sedecias king of Juda sent to Babylon to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, saying:

⁴ Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, to all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

⁵ Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat the fruit of them.

⁶ Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number.

⁷ And seek the peace of the city, to which I have caused you to be carried away captives; and pray to the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall be your peace.

⁸ For thus saith the Lord of hoses the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in the midst of you, and your diviners deceive you: and give no heed to your dreams which you dream:

⁹ For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: and I have not sent them, saith the Lord.

¹⁰ For thus saith the Lord: When the seventy years shall begin to be accomplished in Babylon, I will visit you: and I will perform my good word in your favour, to bring you again to this place.

¹¹ For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction, to give you an end and patience.

¹² And you shall call upon me, and you shall go: and you shall pray to me, and I will hear you.

¹³ You shall seek me, and shall find me: when you shall seek me with all your heart.

¹⁴ And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you out of all nations, and from all the places to which I have driven you out, saith the Lord: and I will bring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried away captive.

5 And they came over the strait of the sea into the country of the Gerasens.

² And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the monuments a man with an unclean spirit,

³ Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains.

⁴ For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.

⁵ And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.

⁶ And seeing Jesus afar off, he ran and adored him.

⁷ And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not.

⁸ For he said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

⁹ And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many.

¹⁰ And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of the country.

¹¹ And there was there near the mountain a great herd of swine, feeding.

¹² And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

¹³ And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits going out, entered into the swine: and the herd with great violence was carried headlong into the sea, being about two thousand, and were stifled in the sea.

¹⁴ And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the fields. And they went out to see what was done:

¹⁵ And they came to Jesus, and they see him that was troubled with the devil, sitting, clothed, and well in his wits, and they were afraid.

¹⁶ And they that had seen it, told them, in what manner he had been dealt with who had the devil; and concerning the swine.

¹⁷ And they began to pray him that he would depart from their coasts.

¹⁸ And when he went up into the ship, he that had been troubled with the devil, began to beseech him that he might be with him.

¹⁹ And he admitted him not, but saith to him: Go into thy house to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had mercy on thee.

²⁰ And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men wondered.