Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
18 I will love You dearly, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress; and He Who delivers me, my God and my strength. In Him will I trust. My shield. The horn, also, of my salvation. My refuge.
3 I will call upon the LORD, Who is worthy to be praised. So shall I be safe from my enemies.
4 The sorrows of death surrounded me. And the floods of wickedness made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of the grave have surrounded me. The snares of death overtook me.
6 But in my trouble, I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of His Temple. And my cry came before Him, into His ears.
7 Then the Earth trembled and quaked. The foundations of the mountains also moved and shook because He was angry.
8 Smoke went out at His nostrils; and a consuming fire out of His mouth, at which coals were kindled.
9 He also bowed the heavens and came down, and darkness was under His feet.
10 And He rode upon a cherub and flew. And He came flying upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness His secret place, his pavilion all around Him; darkness of waters and clouds of the air.
12 At the brightness of His presence, His clouds passed; hailstones and coals of fire.
13 The LORD also thundered in the heaven, and the Highest gave His voice; hailstones and coals of fire.
14 Then He sent out His arrows and scattered them. And He increased lightnings and destroyed them.
15 And the channels of waters were seen. And the foundations of the world were discovered at Your rebuking, O LORD; at the blasting of the breath of Your nostrils.
16 He has sent down from above and taken me. He has drawn me out of many waters.
17 He has delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hate me. For they were too strong for me.
18 They confronted me on the day of my calamity. But the LORD was my stay.
19 He also brought me forth into a large place. He delivered me because He favored me.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up; and the windows of Heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the Earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On the same day, Noah entered into the Ark with Shem and Ham and Japheth (the sons of Noah) and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons,
14 they and every wild animal after its kind and all cattle after their kind and everything that creeps and moves upon the Earth, after its kind, and every bird after its kind (every bird of every feather).
15 For those of all flesh wherein is the breath of life came to Noah, into the Ark, two by two.
16 And entering in, male and female of all flesh came, as God had commanded. And the LORD shut him in.
17 Then the Flood was upon the Earth for forty days; and the waters were increased and bore up the Ark, which was lifted up above the Earth.
18 The waters also grew strong and were increased exceedingly upon the Earth; and the Ark went upon the waters.
19 The waters prevailed so exceedingly upon the Earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits and more did the waters rise up after the mountains were covered.
21 Then, all flesh that moved upon the Earth perished, birds and cattle and wild animals and everything that crept and moved upon the Earth, and every man.
22 Everything in whose nostrils the spirit of life breathed, whatever they were on the dry land, they died.
23 So, He destroyed everything that was upon the Earth, from man to beast to the creeping thing and to the bird of the heaven. They were all destroyed from the Earth. And only Noah remained, and those who were with him in the Ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the Earth a hundred and fifty days.
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.
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.
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