Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹ ¶ O sing unto the LORD a new song; sing unto the LORD, all the earth.

² Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; show forth his saving health from day to day.

³ Declare his glory among the Gentiles, his wonders among all peoples.

⁴ For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.

⁵ For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

⁶ Honour and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁷ Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the peoples, give unto the LORD the glory and the strength.

⁸ Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; bring offerings, and come into his courts.

⁹ O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness; fear before him, all the earth.

³¹ When anyone shall have sinned against his neighbour, and an oath is laid upon him to cause him to swear and the oath comes before thy altar in this house,

³² thou shalt hear from heaven and do and judge thy slaves, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

³³ When thy people Israel are smitten down before the enemy because they have sinned against thee and shall turn again to thee and confess thy name and pray and make supplication with humility unto thee in this house,

³⁴ then thou shalt hear in the heavens and forgive the sin of thy people Israel and bring them again unto the land which thou didst give unto their fathers.

³⁵ When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray in this place and confess thy name and turn from their sin when thou hast afflicted them,

³⁶ then thou shalt hear in the heavens and forgive the sin of thy slaves and of thy people Israel, teaching them the good way in which they should walk and shalt give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

³⁷ When there is famine in the land or pestilence or blasting or mildew or locusts or caterpillars, if their enemy besieges them in the land of their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

³⁸ every prayer and every supplication made by any man or by all thy people Israel, when anyone knows the plague of his own heart and spreads forth his hands toward this house,

³⁹ then thou shalt hear in the heavens, in the habitation of thy dwelling place, and forgive and do and give to each one according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the sons of men),

⁴⁰ that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou didst give unto our fathers.

³¹ ¶ And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.

³² And they were astonished at his doctrine, for his word was with power.

³³ And in the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon and cried out with a loud voice,

³⁴ saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art: the Holy One of God.

³⁵ And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be silent and come out of him. And the demon, throwing him down in the midst, came out of him and hurt him not.

³⁶ And they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, What word is this! For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.

³⁷ And his fame went out into every place of the country round about.