Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹ ¶ I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications.

² Because he has inclined his ear unto me, therefore I will call upon him all of my days.

³ The sorrows of death compassed me and the pains of Sheol found me; I encountered trouble and sorrow.

⁴ Then I called upon the name of the LORD, saying, O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

⁵ Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

⁶ The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and he saved me.

⁷ Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the LORD has dealt bountifully with thee.

⁸ For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

⁹ I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

2 ¶ And Joshua, the son of Nun, sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went and came into a harlot’s house, named Rahab, and lodged there.

² And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, men of the sons of Israel have come here this night to spy out the land.

³ Then the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that have come unto thee, who have entered into thy house; for they are come to spy out all the land.

⁴ And the woman had taken the two men and hidden them and said thus, It is true that some men came unto me, but I did not know where they came from.

⁵ And at the time of shutting the gate, when it was dark, these men went out, and I do not know where the men went; pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.

⁶ But she had brought them up to the roof of the house and hid them among the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

⁷ And the men pursued after them along the way to Jordan unto the fords; and as soon as those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

⁸ ¶ And before they went to sleep, she came up unto them upon the roof;

⁹ and she said unto the men, I know that the LORD has given you this land because the fear of you has fallen upon us and all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.

¹⁰ For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when ye came out of Egypt and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites that were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

¹¹ Hearing this has melted our heart, neither has there remained any more spirit in any man because of you, for the LORD your God is God above in the heavens and in the earth beneath.

¹² Now, therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD since I have showed you mercy that ye will also do the same unto my father’s house, of which thou shalt give me a true sign,

¹³ and that ye will save alive my father and my mother and my brethren and my sisters and all that they have and deliver our lives from death.

¹⁴ And the men answered her, Our life for yours if ye do not declare this our business. And it shall be when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal with thee according to mercy and truth.

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

¹⁸ of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called,

¹⁹ accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence he also received him in a figure.

²⁰ By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning what they should become.

²¹ By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph, and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.

²² By faith Joseph, as he died, made mention of the departing of the sons of Israel, and gave a commandment concerning his bones.