Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

124 If the LORD had not been on our side, (may Israel now say)

² If the LORD had not been on our side when men rose up against us,

³ they would have swallowed us up quickly when their wrath was kindled against us.

⁴ Then, the waters had drowned us; the stream had gone over our soul:

⁵ Then, the swelling waters had gone over our soul.

⁶ Praise the LORD, Who has not given us as a prey to their teeth!

⁷ Our soul has escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken and we are delivered.

⁸ Our help is in the Name of the LORD, Who has made Heaven and Earth. A song of degrees

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.

⁶ So, after forty days, Noah opened the window of the Ark which he had made

⁷ and sent forth a raven. Which went out, going forth and returning, until the waters were dried up upon the Earth.8 Again, he sent a dove from him, so that he might see if the waters were diminished from off the Earth.

⁹ But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. Therefore, she returned to him into the Ark, for the waters were upon the whole Earth. And he put forth his hand and received her and took her to him into the Ark.

¹⁰ And he waited yet another seven days; and he sent forth the dove out of the Ark again.

¹¹ And the dove came to him in the evening; and lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf that she had plucked, whereby Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the Earth.

¹² Notwithstanding, he waited yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove. Which did not come back to him anymore.

¹³ And in his six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters were dried up from off the Earth. And Noah removed the covering of the Ark and looked. And behold, the upper part of the ground was dry.

¹⁴ And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the Earth was dry.

¹⁵ Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

¹⁶ “Go forth from the Ark; you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.

¹⁷ “Bring forth every beast that is with you, of all flesh; birds and cattle and everything that creeps and moves upon the Earth, so that they may breed abundantly on the Earth and bring forth fruit and increase upon the Earth.”

¹⁸ So, Noah came forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.

¹⁹ Every beast, every creeping thing, every bird, and all that moves upon the Earth (after their kinds) went out of the Ark.

6 What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, so that grace may abound? Absolutely not!

² How shall we, who are dead to sin, still live in it?

³ Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized into his death?

⁴ We are then buried with Him, through baptism, into His death; so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead, to the glory of the Father, we also should walk in newness of life.

⁵ For if we are united with Him in the likeness of His death, we shall also be so in the likeness of His resurrection,

⁶ knowing this: that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be made useless and that henceforth we should not serve sin.

⁷ For whoever has died is freed from sin.

⁸ Therefore, if we are dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

⁹ knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death has no more dominion over Him.

¹⁰ For, in that He died, He died once to sin. But in that He lives, He lives to God.

¹¹ Likewise, you also consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God, in Jesus Christ our Lord.