Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

118 ^(A)Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
    for his steadfast love endures for ever!
^2 (B)Let Israel say,
    “His steadfast love endures for ever.”

¹⁴ The Lord is my strength and my song;
    ^(A)he has become my salvation.
¹⁵ Glad songs of salvation
    are in the tents of the righteous:
^(B)“The right hand of the Lord ^(C)does valiantly,
¹⁶     the right hand of the Lord exalts,
    the right hand of the Lord ^(D)does valiantly!”
^17 (E)I shall not die, but I shall live,
    and ^(F)recount the deeds of the Lord.
¹⁸ The Lord has ^(G)disciplined me severely,
    but he has not given me over to death.
^19 (H)Open to me the gates of righteousness,
    that I may enter through them
    and give thanks to the Lord.
²⁰ This is the gate of the Lord;
    ^(I)the righteous shall enter through it.
²¹ I thank you that ^(J)you have answered me
    ^(K)and have become my salvation.
^22 (L)The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone.^[a]
23 This is the Lord's doing;
    it is marvellous in our eyes.
²⁴ This is the day that the Lord has made;
    let us rejoice and be glad in it.

^(B)“I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
    the horse and his rider^[a] he has thrown into the sea.
^2 (C)The Lord is my strength and my ^(D)song,
    and he has become ^(E)my salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him,
    ^(F)my father's God, and ^(G)I will exalt him.
³ The Lord is ^(H)a man of war;
    ^(I)the Lord is his name.
^4 (J)“Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea,
    and his chosen ^(K)officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
⁵ The ^(L)floods covered them;
    they ^(M)went down into the depths like a stone.
^6 (N)Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power,
    your right hand, O Lord, ^(O)shatters the enemy.
⁷ In the ^(P)greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries;
    you send out your fury; it ^(Q)consumes them like stubble.
⁸ At the ^(R)blast of your nostrils the waters piled up;
    the ^(S)floods stood up in a pile;
    the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
⁹ The enemy said, ^(T)‘I will pursue, I will overtake,
    I ^(U)will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
    I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
¹⁰ You ^(V)blew with your wind; the ^(W)sea covered them;
    they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
^11 (X)“Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?
    Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
    awesome in ^(Y)glorious deeds, ^(Z)doing wonders?
¹² You stretched out ^(AA)your right hand;
    the earth swallowed them.
¹³ “You have ^(AB)led in your steadfast love the people whom ^(AC)you have redeemed;
    you have ^(AD)guided them by your strength to your holy abode.
^14 (AE)The peoples have heard; they tremble;
    pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
¹⁵ Now are the chiefs of Edom ^(AF)dismayed;
    trembling seizes the leaders of ^(AG)Moab;
    ^(AH)all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
¹⁶ Terror and ^(AI)dread fall upon them;
    because of the greatness of your arm, they are still ^(AJ)as a stone,
till your people, O Lord, pass by,
    till the people pass by whom ^(AK)you have purchased.
¹⁷ You will bring them in and ^(AL)plant them on your own mountain,
    the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode,
    ^(AM)the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
^18 (AN)The Lord will reign for ever and ever.”