Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
30 I will magnify You, O LORD. You have exalted me and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
2 O LORD, my God, I cried to You; and You have restored me.
3 O LORD, You have brought up my soul out of the grave. You have revived me from those who go down into the pit.
4 Sing praises to the LORD, His Saints, and give thanks before the remembrance of His Holiness.
5 For His anger endures but a while. In His favor is life. Weeping may abide at evening, but joy comes in the morning.
6 And in my prosperity, I said, “I shall never be moved.”
7 For You, LORD, from Your goodness, had made my mountain to stand strong. You hid Your face, and I was troubled.
8 Then I cried to You, O LORD, and prayed to my LORD.
9 What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit! Shall the dust give thanks to You? Or shall it declare Your Truth?
10 Hear, O LORD; and have mercy upon me. LORD, be my Helper.
11 You have turned my mourning into joy. You have loosened my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.
12 Therefore, my tongue shall praise You, and not cease. O LORD, my God, I will give thanks to You forever. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.
13 Moreover, the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
2 “The man that shall have a swelling or a scab in the skin of his flesh, or a white spot, so that it is like the plague of leprosy in the skin of his flesh. Then he shall be brought to Aaron the Priest, or to one of his sons the priests.
3 “And the priest shall look at the sore on the skin of his flesh. If the hair on the sore has turned white, and the sore is seen to be lower than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy. Therefore the priest shall look at him and pronounce him unclean.
4 “But if the white spot is on the skin of his flesh and seems not to be lower than the skin nor its hair turned white, then the priest shall shut up he who has the plague for seven days.
5 “Afterward, the priest shall examine him on the seventh day. And if the plague seems to abide in him still, and the plague has not grown on the skin, the priest shall isolate him for seven more days.
6 “Then the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. And if the plague is dark, and the sore has not grown on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. Therefore, he shall wash his clothes and be clean.
7 “If the scab grows more on the skin after he has been seen by the priest to be purged, he shall be seen by the priest again.
8 “Then the priest shall look, and if the scab grows on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is leprosy.
9 “When the plague of leprosy is in a man, he shall be brought to the priest.
10 “And the priest shall see him. And if the swelling is white on the skin, and has made the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,
11 “it is an old leprosy on the skin of his flesh. And the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not isolate him, for he is unclean.
12 “Also, if the leprosy breaks out on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the plague, from his head to his feet, wherever the priest looks,
13 “then the priest shall look, and if the leprosy covers all his flesh, he shall pronounce the plague to be clean, because it is all turned into whiteness. So he shall be clean.
14 “But if there is raw flesh on him when he is seen, he shall be unclean.
15 “For the priest shall see the raw flesh and declare him to be unclean. The raw flesh is unclean. It is the leprosy.
16 “Or if the raw flesh changes and turns white, then he shall come to the priest
17 “and the priest shall examine him. And if the sore turns white, then the priest shall pronounce the plague clean, for it is clean.
7 If you endure chastening, God offered Himself to you as to sons. For what son is it whom the Father does not chasten?
8 Therefore, if you are without correction - of which all are partakers - then you are bastards, and not sons.
9 Moreover, we have had the fathers of our bodies who corrected us, and we gave them reverence. Should we not be in all the more subjection to the Father of Spirits, in order that we might live?
10 For indeed they chastened us for a few days, as it pleased them. But He chastened us for our profit, so that we might be partakers of His holiness.
11 Now, no chastising seems joyous at the time, but grievous. Yet afterward, it brings the quiet fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.
12 Therefore, lift up your hands which hang down, and your weak knees,
13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is halting is not turned out of the way. But rather, let it be healed.
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