Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ Praise our God, you people, and make the voice of His praise heard.

⁹ He holds our souls in life and does not let our feet slip.

¹⁰ For You, O God, have tested us. You have refined us as silver is refined.

¹¹ You have brought us into the net. You put pressure upon our loins.

¹² You have caused men to ride over our heads. We went into fire and into water; but You brought us out into abundance.

¹³ I will go into Your House with burnt offerings and will pay You my vows

¹⁴ which my lips have promised; and my mouth has spoken in my affliction.

¹⁵ I will offer to You the burnt offerings of fat rams with incense. I will prepare bullocks and goats. Selah.

¹⁶ Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell you what He has done to my soul.

¹⁷ I called to Him with my mouth and He was exalted with my tongue.

¹⁸ If I regard wickedness in my heart, the LORD will not hear me.

¹⁹ But God has heard me and considered the voice of my prayer.

²⁰ Praised God, Who has turned away neither my prayer nor His mercy. To him who excels on Neginoth: A psalm or song

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 The Earth was also corrupt before God; for the Earth was filled with cruelty.

¹² Then God looked upon the Earth; and behold, it was corrupt. For all flesh had corrupted its way upon the Earth.

¹³ And God said to Noah, “An end of all flesh has come before Me; for the Earth is filled with cruelty through them. And behold, I will destroy them with the Earth.

¹⁴ “Make an Ark of gopher wood. You shall make cabins in the Ark and shall cover it inside and outside with a coating.

¹⁵ “And thus shall you make it: the length of the Ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

¹⁶ “You shall make a window in the Ark, and you shall finish it above in a cubit; and you shall set the door of the Ark in the side thereof. You shall make it with the low, second, and third room.

¹⁷ “And I, behold, I will bring a Flood of waters upon the Earth, to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life under Heaven. All that is on the Earth shall perish.

¹⁸ But I will establish My covenant with you. And you shall go into the Ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

¹⁹ “And you shall cause two of every sort of every living thing (of all flesh) to come into the Ark, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

²⁰ Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come to you; so that you may keep them alive.

²¹ “And take with you all food that is eaten. And you shall gather it; so that it may be food for you and for them.”

²² Therefore, Noah did as God commanded him. So did he.

27 Now when it was decided that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a Centurion from the band of Augustus named Julius.

² And we boarded a ship of Adramyttium, intending to sail along the coasts of Asia, and launched forth, and had Aristarchus of Macedonia (a Thessalonian) with us.

³ And the next day we arrived at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him liberty to go to his friends, so that they might refresh him.

⁴ And from there we launched, and sailed to the leeward side of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

⁵ Then we sailed over the sea, by Cilicia and Pamphilia, and came to Myra, in Lycia.

⁶ And the Centurion found a ship of Alexandria there, sailing into Italy. And he put us in it.

⁷ And when we had sailed slowly for many days, and had arrived off Cnidus with difficulty (because the wind did not allow it), we sailed to the leeward side of Crete, near Salmone,

⁸ And with much difficulty, we sailed beyond it and came to a place called the Fair Havens (near the city, Lasea).

⁹ So, after much time had been spent, and sailing was now dangerous (and also because the Fast had now passed), Paul admonished them,

¹⁰ saying, “Sirs! I perceive that this voyage will cause injury, and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”

¹¹ But the Centurion believed the governor and the master of the ship rather than those things which were spoken by Paul.

¹² And because the harbor was not suitable to winter in, many advised to depart from there, if by some means they might reach Phoenix to winter, which is a harbor of Crete, looking toward the southwest and northwest.