Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

118 Praise the LORD because He is good; for His mercy endures forever!

² Let Israel now say, “His mercy endures forever!”

¹⁴ The LORD is my strength and song; for He has been my deliverance.

¹⁵ The voice of joy and deliverance is in the tabernacles of the righteous. The right hand of the LORD has done valiantly.

¹⁶ The right hand of the LORD is exalted. The right hand of the LORD has done valiantly.

¹⁷ I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the LORD.

¹⁸ The LORD has chastened me severely; but He has not delivered me to death.

¹⁹ Open the gates of righteousness to me, so that I may go into them and praise the LORD.

²⁰ This is the gate of the LORD. The righteous shall enter into it.

²¹ I will praise You; for You have heard me and have been my deliverance.

²² The Stone which the builders refused is the Head of the Corner.

²³ This was the LORD’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes,

²⁴ This is the day the LORD has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

6 Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel: thirty thousand.

² And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up the Ark of God from there, whose name comes from the Name of the LORD of Hosts, Who dwells upon it between the Cherubim.

³ And they put the Ark of God upon a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

⁴ And when they brought the Ark of God out of the house of Abinadab that was at Gibeah, Ahio went before the Ark.

⁵ And David and all the House of Israel played before the LORD on all instruments made of fir, and on harps, and on psalteries, and on tambourines, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

⁶ And when they came to Nachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put his hand on the Ark of God and held it. For the oxen shook it.

⁷ And the LORD was very angry with Uzzah. And God struck him in that same place for his fault. And there he died, by the Ark of God.

⁸ And David was displeased because the LORD had stricken Uzzah. And he called the name of the place “Perez Uzzah” until this day.

⁹ Therefore, David feared the LORD that day, and said, “How shall the Ark of the LORD come to me?”

¹⁰ So David would not bring the Ark of the LORD to him into the City of David. But David carried it into the house of Obed-Edom, a Gittite.

¹¹ And the Ark of the LORD stayed in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. And the LORD blessed Obed-Edom and all his household.

¹² And someone told King David, saying, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that he has, because of the Ark of God.” Therefore, David went and brought the Ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom into the City of David with gladness.

¹³ And when those who bore the Ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he offered an ox and a fat beast.

¹⁴ And David danced before the LORD with all his might and was girded with a linen ephod.

¹⁵ So David and all the House of Israel brought the Ark of the LORD with shouting and sound of trumpet.

24 Now, early in the morning on the first day of the week, they (and some women with them) came to the sepulcher and brought the spices which they had prepared.

² And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulcher.

³ And they went in but did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

⁴ And it happened that (as they were perplexed by this) behold, two men suddenly stood by them in shining garments.

⁵ And being afraid, they bowed their faces down to the Earth. They said to them, “Why do you seek Him who lives among the dead?

⁶ “He is not here but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,

⁷ saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful man, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.”

⁸ And they remembered his words,

⁹ and returned from the sepulcher, and told all these things to the eleven, and to all the remnant.

¹⁰ Now it was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women with them who told these things to the Apostles.

¹¹ But their words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe them.

¹² Then Peter arose and ran to the sepulcher and looked in and saw the linen clothes laid by themselves. And he departed, wondering to himself what had happened.