Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

65 Unto the end, a canticle of a psalm of the resurrection. Shout with joy to God, all the earth,

² Sing ye a psalm to his name; give glory to his praise.

³ Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee.

⁴ Let all the earth adore thee, and sing to thee: let it sing a psalm to thy name.

⁵ Come and see the works of God; who is terrible in his counsels over the sons of men.

⁶ Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass on foot: there shall we rejoice in him.

⁷ Who by his power ruleth for ever: his eyes behold the nations; let not them that provoke him he exalted in themselves.

⁸ O bless our God, ye Gentiles: and make the voice of his praise to be heard.

⁹ Who hath set my soul to live: and hath not suffered my feet to be moved:

¹⁰ For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.

¹¹ Thou hast brought us into a net, thou hast laid afflictions on our back:

¹² Thou hast set men over our heads. We have passed through fire and water, and thou hast brought us out into a refreshment.

¹³ I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,

¹⁴ Which my lips have uttered, And my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

¹⁵ I will offer up to thee holocausts full of marrow, with burnt offerings of rams: I will offer to thee bullocks with goats.

¹⁶ Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will tell you what great things he hath done for my soul.

¹⁷ I cried to him with my mouth: and I extolled him with my tongue.

¹⁸ If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.

¹⁹ Therefore hath God heard me, and hath attended to the voice of my supplication.

²⁰ Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

¹³ And the Lord said to Moses: Arise in the morning, and stand before Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.

¹⁴ For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people: that thou mayst know there is none like me in all the earth.

¹⁵ For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee, and thy people with pestilence, and thou shalt perish from the earth.

¹⁶ And therefore have I raised thee, that I may shew my power in thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth.

¹⁷ Dost thou yet hold back my people: and wilt thou not let them go?

¹⁸ Behold I will cause it to rain to morrow at this same hour, an exceeding great hail: such as hath not been in Egypt from the day that it was founded, until this present time.

¹⁹ Send therefore now presently, and gather together thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field: for men and beasts, and all things that shall be found abroad, and not gathered together out of the fields, which the hail shall fall upon, shall die.

²⁰ He that feared the word of the Lord among Pharao's servants, made his servants and his cattle flee into houses:

²¹ But he that regarded not the word of the Lord, left his servants and his cattle in the fields:

²² And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, that there may be hail in the whole land of Egypt, upon men, and upon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt.

²³ And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

²⁴ And the hail and fire mixed with it drove on together: and it was of so great bigness, as never before was seen in the whole land of Egypt since that nation was founded.

²⁵ And the hail destroyed through all the land of Egypt all things that were in the fields, both man and beast: and the hail smote every herb of the field, and it broke every tree of the country.

²⁶ Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel were, the hail fell not.

²⁷ And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, saying to them: I have sinned this time also; the Lord is just: I and my people are wicked.

²⁸ Pray ye to the Lord, that the thunderings of God and the hail may cease: that I may let you go, and that you may stay here no longer.

²⁹ Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands to the Lord, and the thunders shall cease, and the hail shall be no more: that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord's.

³⁰ But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear the Lord God.

³¹ The flax therefore and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now boiled:

³² But the wheat, and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward.

³³ And when Moses was gone from Pharao out of the city, he stretched forth his hands to the Lord: and the thunders and the hail ceased, neither did there drop any more rain upon the earth.

³⁴ And Pharao seeing that the rain and the hail, and the thunders were ceased, increased his sin.

³⁵ And his heart was hardened, and the heart of his servants, and it was made exceeding hard: neither did he let the children of Israel go, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.

³⁹ And when it was day, they knew not the land; but they discovered a certain creek that had a shore, into which they minded, if they could, to thrust in the ship.

⁴⁰ And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves to the sea, loosing withal the rudder bands; and hoisting up the mainsail to the wind, they made towards shore.

⁴¹ And when we were fallen into a place where two seas met, they run the ship aground; and the forepart indeed, sticking fast, remained unmoveable: but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the sea.

⁴² And the soldiers' counsel was, that they should kill the prisoners, lest any of them, swimming out, should escape.

⁴³ But the centurion, willing to save Paul, forbade it to be done; and he commanded that they who could swim, should cast themselves first into the sea, and save themselves, and get to land.

⁴⁴ And the rest, some they carried on boards, and some on those things that belonged to the ship. And so it came to pass, that every soul got safe to land.