Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Psalm 106[a]
106 Praise the Lord.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
and his loyal love endures.[b]
2 Who can adequately recount the Lord’s mighty acts,
or relate all his praiseworthy deeds?[c]
3 How blessed are those who promote justice,
and do what is right all the time.
4 Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people.
Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
5 so I may see the prosperity[d] of your chosen ones,
rejoice along with your nation,[e]
and boast along with the people who belong to you.[f]
6 We have sinned like[g] our ancestors;[h]
we have done wrong, we have done evil.
19 They made an image of a calf at Horeb,
and worshiped a metal idol.
20 They traded their majestic God[a]
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They rejected[b] the God who delivered them,
the one who performed great deeds in Egypt,
22 amazing feats in the land of Ham,
mighty acts[c] by the Red Sea.
23 He threatened[d] to destroy them,
but[e] Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him[f]
and turned back his destructive anger.[g]
12 [a] The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets[b] with[c] the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.”[d] 13 So Moses set out[e] with[f] Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God. 14 He told the elders, “Wait for us in this place until we return to you. Here are[g] Aaron and Hur with you. Whoever has any matters of dispute[h] can approach[i] them.”
15 Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. 16 The glory of the Lord resided[j] on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days.[k] On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud. 17 Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view[l] of the people. 18 Moses went into the cloud when he went up[m] the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.[n]
The Superiority of the New
18 Now[a] John’s[b] disciples and the Pharisees[c] were fasting.[d] So[e] they came to Jesus[f] and said, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?” 19 Jesus[g] said to them, “The wedding guests[h] cannot fast while the bridegroom[i] is with them, can they?[j] As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast. 20 But the days are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them,[k] and at that time[l] they will fast. 21 No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse. 22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins;[m] otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins will be destroyed. Instead new wine is poured into new wineskins.”[n]
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