Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

106 Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

² Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? [who] can shew forth all his praise?

³ Blessed are they that keep justice, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.

⁴ Remember me, O Jehovah, with [thy] favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:

⁵ That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

¹³ They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

¹⁴ And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

¹⁵ Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶ And they envied Moses in the camp, [and] Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.

¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;

¹⁸ And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;

²⁰ And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

²¹ They forgot God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,

²² Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

²³ And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy [them].

⁴⁷ Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise.

⁴⁸ Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!

⁹ Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things that thine eyes have seen (and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known to thy sons and to thy sons' sons),

¹⁰ the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Gather me the people together, that I may cause them to hear my words, that they may learn them, and fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and teach them to their children.

¹¹ And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and obscurity.

¹² And Jehovah spoke to you from the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but ye saw no form; only [ye heard] a voice.

¹³ And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, the ten words; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

¹⁴ And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it.

⁶ Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up.

⁷ But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;

⁸ for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come.

⁹ The word [is] faithful and worthy of all acceptation;

¹⁰ for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.

¹¹ Enjoin and teach these things.

¹² Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

¹³ Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

¹⁴ Be not negligent of the gift [that is] in thee, which has been given to thee through prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the elderhood.

¹⁵ Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all.

¹⁶ Give heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that hear thee.