Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

122 I rejoiced when they said to me, “We will go into the House of the LORD.”

² Our feet shall stand in Your gates, O Jerusalem!

³ Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together in itself,

⁴ to which the tribes—even the Tribes of the LORD—go up (according to the testimony to Israel) to praise the Name of the LORD.

⁵ For there are thrones set for judgment, the thrones of the House of David.

⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Let those who love You prosper.

⁷ Peace be within Your walls and prosperity within Your palaces.

⁸ For my brothers’ and neighbors’ sakes, I will now wish you prosperity.

⁹ Because of the House of the LORD our God, I will seek your good. A song of degrees

6 So when men began to be multiplied upon the Earth, and there were daughters born to them,

² Then the sons of God saw the daughters of men (that they were fair) and they took wives of all whom they liked.

³ Therefore the LORD said, “My spirit shall not always strive with man, because he is but flesh. And his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.”

⁴ There were giants on the Earth in those days—and also after that—when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and children had been borne to them. These were mighty men, who, in old time, were men of renown.

⁵ When the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the Earth (and all the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually),

⁶ then it caused the LORD to regret that He had made man on the Earth; and He was sorry in His heart.

⁷ Therefore the LORD said, “I will destroy the man whom I have created from off the Earth— from man to beast to the creeping thing and to the birds of the heaven — for I regret that I have made them.

⁸ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just and upright man in his time. Noah walked with God.

¹⁰ And Noah begat three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

11 Now faith is the confidence of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen.

² For by it our elders were given a good report.

³ Through faith, we understand that the world was ordained by the Word of God, so that the things which we see are not made of things which are visible.

⁴ By faith, Abel offered a greater sacrifice to God than Cain - by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts - also by which he, being dead, still speaks.

⁵ By faith, Enoch was translated, so that he would not see death. Nor was he found. For God had taken him away. For before he was transformed, it was reported of him that he had pleased God.

⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please Him. He who comes to God must believe that God is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.

⁷ By faith, Noah being warned by God of the things which were as yet not seen, moved with reverence, prepared the Ark to the saving of his household (through which He condemned the world), and was made heir of the righteousness which is by faith.