Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

[A Psalm] of David.

35 Strive, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me:

² Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help;

³ And draw out the spear, and stop [the way] against my pursuers: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

⁴ Let them be put to shame and confounded that seek after my life; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that devise my hurt:

⁵ Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive [them] away;

⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of Jehovah pursue them.

⁷ For without cause have they hidden for me their net [in] a pit; without cause they have digged [it] for my soul.

⁸ Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net which he hath hidden catch himself: for destruction let him fall therein.

⁹ And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah; it shall rejoice in his salvation.

¹⁰ All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the afflicted from one stronger than he, yea, the afflicted and the needy from him that spoileth him!

29 And these are the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon

² (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem);

³ by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkijah (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon, unto Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying,

⁴ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon:

⁵ Build houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

⁶ Take wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and be not diminished.

⁷ And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto Jehovah for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

⁸ For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in your midst, nor your diviners deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams, which ye like to dream.

⁹ For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith Jehovah.

¹⁰ For thus saith Jehovah: When seventy years shall be accomplished for Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in bringing you back to this place.

¹¹ For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you in your latter end a hope.

¹² And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you;

¹³ and ye shall seek me and find me, for ye shall search for me with all your heart,

¹⁴ and I will be found of you, saith Jehovah. And I will turn your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith Jehovah; and I will bring you again into the place whence I have caused you to be carried away captive.

5 And they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes.

² And immediately on his going out of the ship there met him out of the tombs a man possessed by an unclean spirit,

³ who had his dwelling in the tombs; and no one was able to bind him, not even with chains;

⁴ because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn asunder by him, and the fetters were shattered; and no one was able to subdue him.

⁵ And continually night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying and cutting himself with stones.

⁶ But seeing Jesus from afar off, he ran and did him homage,

⁷ and crying with a loud voice he says, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, torment me not.

⁸ For he said to him, Come forth, unclean spirit, out of the man.

⁹ And he asked him, What is thy name? And he says to him, Legion is my name, because we are many.

¹⁰ And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

¹¹ Now there was there just at the mountain a great herd of swine feeding;

¹² and they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine that we may enter into them.

¹³ And Jesus [immediately] allowed them. And the unclean spirits going out entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep slope, into the sea (about two thousand), and were choked in the sea.

¹⁴ And those that were feeding them fled and reported it in the city and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that had taken place.

¹⁵ And they come to Jesus, and they see the possessed of demons sitting [and] clothed and sensible, [him] that had had the legion: and they were afraid.

¹⁶ And they that had seen [it] related to them how it had happened to the [man] possessed by demons, and concerning the swine.

¹⁷ And they began to beg him to depart from their coasts.

¹⁸ And as he went on board ship, the man that had been possessed by demons besought him that he might be with him.

¹⁹ And he suffered him not, but says to him, Go to thine home to thine own people, and tell them how great things the Lord has done for thee, and has had mercy on thee.

²⁰ And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him; and all wondered.