Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Psalm 26

[A Psalm] of David.

¹ Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity; I have [expectantly] trusted in, leaned on, and relied on the Lord without wavering and I shall not slide.

² Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; test my heart and my mind.

³ For Your loving-kindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth [faithfully].

⁴ I do not sit with false persons, nor fellowship with pretenders;

⁵ I hate the company of evildoers and will not sit with the wicked.

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence, and go about Your altar, O Lord,

⁷ That I may make the voice of thanksgiving heard and may tell of all Your wondrous works.

⁸ Lord, I love the habitation of Your house, and the place where Your glory dwells.

¹⁰ Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me to be a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither loaned, nor have men loaned to me, yet everyone curses me.^(A)

¹¹ The Lord said, Truly your release, affliction, and strengthening will be for good [purposes]; surely [Jeremiah] I will intercede for you with the enemy and I will cause the enemy to ask for your aid in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.^(B)

¹² Can iron break the iron from the north and the bronze?

¹³ Your [nation’s] substance and your treasures will I give as spoil, without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your territory.

¹⁴ And I will make [your possessions] to pass with your enemies into a land which you do not know and I will make you to serve [your conquerors] there, for a fire is kindled in My anger which will burn upon you [Israel].

¹⁴ And when Jesus went into Peter’s house, He saw his mother-in-law lying ill with a fever.

¹⁵ He touched her hand and the fever left her; and she got up and began waiting on Him.

¹⁶ When evening came, they brought to Him many who were ^[a]under the power of demons, and He drove out the spirits with a word and restored to health all who were sick.

¹⁷ And thus He fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, He Himself took [^[b]in order to carry away] our weaknesses and infirmities and bore ^[c]away our diseases.^(A)