Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

114 When Israel went out of Egypt, and the House of Jacob from the barbarous people,

² Judah was His sanctification, and Israel His dominion.

³ The sea saw it and fled. Jordan was turned back.

⁴ The mountains leaped like rams, and the hills as lambs!

⁵ What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, why were you turned back?

⁶ You mountains, why did you leap like rams, and you hills as lambs?

⁷ The Earth trembled at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸ Who turns the rock into standing water, and the flint into a fountain of water.

2 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,

² and said, “I cried to the LORD in my affliction and He heard me. Out of the belly of hell I cried. You heard my voice.

³ “For You had cast me into the bottom, in the midst of the sea. And the floods surrounded me. All Your surges and all Your waves passed over me.

⁴ “Then I said, “I am cast away, out of Your sight. Yet, I will look once again toward Your Holy Temple.

⁵ “The waters surrounded me, to the soul. The depth closed me all around; and the weeds were wrapped around my head.

⁶ “I went down to the bottom of the mountains. The Earth, with her bars, was around me forever. Still, You have brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.

⁷ “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD; and my prayer came to You into Your Holy Temple.

⁸ “Those who observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

⁹ “But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; and will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD.”

¹⁰ And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it cast out Jonah upon the dry land.

³⁸ Then answered some of the scribes and Pharisees, saying, “Master, we wish to see a sign from You.”

³⁹ But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. But no sign shall be given to it, except the sign of the Prophet Jonah.

⁴⁰ “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the Earth.

⁴¹ “The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and condemn it. For they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold, a Greater than Jonah is here.

⁴² “The Queen of the South shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it. For she came from the utmost parts of the Earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, a Greater than Solomon is here.