Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

95 Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation;

² Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout aloud unto him with psalms.

³ For Jehovah is a great God, and a great king above all gods.

⁴ In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also:

⁵ The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry [land].

⁶ Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

⁷ For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,

⁸ Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah, in the wilderness;

⁹ When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

¹⁰ Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

¹¹ So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest.

16 And they journeyed from Elim, and the whole assembly of the children of Israel came into the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure out of the land of Egypt.

² And the whole assembly of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness.

³ And the children of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we ate bread to the full; for ye have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole congregation with hunger!

⁴ Then said Jehovah to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather the daily need on its day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

⁵ And it shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare what they have brought in; and it shall be twice as much as they shall gather daily.

⁶ And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, In the evening, then shall ye know that Jehovah has brought you out from the land of Egypt;

⁷ and in the morning, then shall ye see the glory of Jehovah; for he has heard your murmurings against Jehovah;—and what are we, that ye murmur against us?

⁸ And Moses said, When Jehovah gives you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for Jehovah hears your murmurings which ye murmur against him … and what [are] we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah.

¹⁵ who is image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation;

¹⁶ because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.

¹⁷ And *he* is before all, and all things subsist together by him.

¹⁸ And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might have the first place in all things:

¹⁹ for in him all the fulness [of the Godhead] was pleased to dwell,

²⁰ and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross—by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.

²¹ And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled

²² in the body of his flesh through death; to present you holy and unblamable and irreproachable before it,

²³ if indeed ye abide in the faith founded and firm, and not moved away from the hope of the glad tidings, which ye have heard, which have been proclaimed in the whole creation which [is] under heaven, of which *I* Paul became minister.