Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

² Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

³ Who whet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words

⁴ That they may shoot in secret at the perfect; suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not.

⁵ They encourage themselves in an evil matter; they attempt to hide the snares; they say, Who shall see them?

⁶ They search out iniquities; they perfect and put into effect that which they have invented in the inward thought of each one of them and that which they have devised in their heart.

⁷ ¶ But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

⁸ So they shall make their own council and agreements to fall upon themselves; all that see them shall flee away.

⁹ And all men shall fear and shall declare the work of God, for they shall understand his doing.

¹⁰ The righteous shall be glad in the LORD and shall become secure in him, and all the upright in heart shall glory in him.

32 ¶ And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

² Son of man, raise up lamentations upon Pharaoh king of Egypt and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as the whale in the seas, that dost dry up thy rivers, and trouble the waters with thy feet, and foul their streams.

³ Thus hath the Lord GOD said: I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many peoples, and they shall bring thee up in my net.

⁴ Then I will leave thee upon the land; I will cast thee forth upon the open field and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.

⁵ And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with thy height.

⁶ I will also water with thy blood the land in which thou dost swim, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

⁷ And when thou art dead, I will cover the heavens and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

⁸ All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark because of thee and set darkness upon thy land, said the Lord GOD.

⁹ I will also make the hearts of many peoples sad when I shall bring thy destruction upon the Gentiles, into the countries which thou hast not known.

¹⁰ And I will make many peoples amazed at thee and their kings shall be horribly afraid because of thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

³⁷ ¶ And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the mountain, many people met him.

³⁸ And, behold, a man of the multitude cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son, for he is my only child.

³⁹ And, behold, a spirit takes him, and he suddenly cries out; and it throws him into convulsions with foaming, and with difficulty it departs from him, bruising him.

⁴⁰ And I besought thy disciples to cast him out, and they could not.

⁴¹ And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring thy son here.

⁴² And as he was yet a coming, the demon threw him down into convulsions; but Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the child and delivered him again to his father.

⁴³ ¶ And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they all wondered at all the things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples,