Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

A Song of degrees. Of David.

122 I rejoiced when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of Jehovah.

² Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

³ Jerusalem, which art built as a city that is compact together,

⁴ Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of Jah, a testimony to Israel, to give thanks unto the name of Jehovah.

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

⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

⁷ Peace be within thy bulwarks, prosperity within thy palaces.

⁸ For my brethren and companions' sakes I will say, Peace be within thee!

⁹ Because of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek thy good.

6 And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them,

² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.

³ And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

⁴ In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne [children] to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.

⁵ And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.

⁶ And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

⁷ And Jehovah said, I will destroy Man, whom I have created, from the earth—from man to cattle, to creeping things, and to fowl of the heavens; for I repent that I have made them.

⁸ But Noah found favour in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁹ This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.

¹⁰ And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 Now faith is [the] substantiating of things hoped for, [the] conviction of things not seen.

² For in [the power of] this the elders have obtained testimony.

³ By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by [the] word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear.

⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained testimony of being righteous, God bearing testimony to his gifts, and by it, having died, he yet speaks.

⁵ By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before [his] translation he has the testimony that he had pleased God.

⁶ But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]. For he that draws near to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them who seek him out.

⁷ By faith, Noah, oracularly warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house; by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which [is] according to faith.