Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

65 I am sought out of them that inquired not [for me], I am found of them that sought me not; I have said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

² I have stretched out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, who walk in a way not good, after their own thoughts;

³ the people that provoke me to anger continually to my face, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon the bricks;

⁴ who sit down among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things [is in] their vessels;

⁵ who say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

⁶ Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

⁷ your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, who have burned incense upon the mountains, and outraged me upon the hills; and I will measure their former work into their bosom.

⁸ Thus saith Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster, and it is said, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy [them] all.

⁹ And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah a possessor of my mountains; and mine elect shall possess it, and my servants shall dwell there.

¹⁹ But thou, Jehovah, be not far [from me]; O my strength, haste thee to help me.

²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword; my only one from the power of the dog;

²¹ Save me from the lion's mouth. Yea, from the horns of the buffaloes hast thou answered me.

²² I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

²³ Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and revere him, all ye the seed of Israel.

²⁴ For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him: but when he cried unto him, he heard.

²⁵ My praise is from thee, in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

²⁶ The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah, and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee:

²⁸ For the kingdom is Jehovah's, and he ruleth among the nations.

²³ But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith [which was] about to be revealed.

²⁴ So that the law has been our tutor up to Christ, that we might be justified on the principle of faith.

²⁵ But, faith having come, we are no longer under a tutor;

²⁶ for ye are all God's sons by faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁷ For ye, as many as have been baptised unto Christ, have put on Christ.

²⁸ There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman; there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus:

²⁹ but if *ye* [are] of Christ, then ye are Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise.

²⁶ And they arrived in the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.

²⁷ And as he got out [of the ship] on the land, a certain man out of the city met him, who had demons a long time, and put on no clothes, and did not abide in a house, but in the tombs.

²⁸ But seeing Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus Son of the Most High God? I beseech thee torment me not.

²⁹ For he had commanded the unclean spirit to go out from the man. For very often it had seized him; and he had been bound, kept with chains and fetters; and breaking the bonds he was driven by the demon into the deserts.

³⁰ And Jesus asked him saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: for many demons had entered into him.

³¹ And they besought him that he would not command them to go away into the bottomless pit.

³² And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain, and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into those; and he suffered them.

³³ And the demons, going out from the man, entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake, and were choked.

³⁴ But they that fed [them], seeing what had happened, fled, and told [it] to the city and to the country.

³⁵ And they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting, clothed and sensible, at the feet of Jesus. And they were afraid.

³⁶ And they also who had seen it told them how the possessed man had been healed.

³⁷ And all the multitude of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were possessed with great fear; and *he*, entering into the ship, returned.

³⁸ But the man out of whom the demons had gone besought him that he might be with him. But he sent him away, saying,

³⁹ Return to thine house and relate how great things God has done for thee. And he went away through the whole city, publishing how great things Jesus had done for him.