Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

51 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of Your compassions, put away my iniquities.

² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity; and cleanse me from my sin.

³ For I know my iniquities; and my sin is ever before me.

⁴ Against You, against You only, have I sinned and done evil in Your sight; that You may be just when You speak and pure when You judge.

⁵ Behold, I was born in iniquity; and in sin my mother conceived me.

⁶ Behold, You love truth to the core. Therefore, You have taught me wisdom in my core.

⁷ Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

⁸ Make me hear joy and gladness; so that the bones which You have broken may rejoice.

⁹ Hide Your Face from my sins; and put away all my iniquities.

¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

⁶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the Flood of waters was upon the Earth.

⁷ So, Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered into the Ark with him, because of the waters of the Flood.

⁸ Of the clean beasts and of the unclean beasts and of the birds and of all that creeps upon the Earth,

⁹ there came to Noah (two by two, male and female) into the Ark, as God had commanded Noah.

¹⁰ And so, after seven days, the waters of the Flood were upon the Earth.

8 Now God remembered Noah, and every beast, and all the cattle that were with him in the Ark. Therefore, God made a wind pass upon the Earth; and the waters ceased.

² Also, the fountains of the deep and the windows of Heaven were stopped; and the rain from Heaven was restrained.

³ And the waters returned from above the Earth, going and returning. And after the end of the hundred and fiftieth day, the waters abated.

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

⁵ And the waters were going forth and decreasing until the tenth month. In the tenth month, and on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

2 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who shall secretly bring in damnable heresies - even denying the Lord Who has bought them - and bring upon themselves swift damnation.

² And many shall follow their destructive ways, by whom the way of truth shall be blasphemed.

³ And through covetousness they shall, with crafty words, make merchandise of you. Their ancient condemnation is not lingering. And their destruction does not slumber.

⁴ For if God did not spare the angels who had sinned, but cast them down into Hell and delivered them into chains of darkness (to be kept for damnation);

⁵ nor spare the old world (save Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness), but brought in the Flood upon the world of the ungodly;

⁶ and turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes (condemning and overthrowing them), and made them an example to those who would live ungodly afterward;

⁷ and delivered Lot only, overwrought with the unclean conduct of the wicked

⁸ (for he - being righteous and dwelling among them - tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their unlawful deeds),

⁹ then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trials and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the Day of Judgment;

¹⁰ and chiefly those who walk after the flesh (in the lust of uncleanness) and despise government. They are presumptuous, standing in their own conceit, and unafraid to blaspheme God’s glories.