Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

113 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people:

² Judea made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

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

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock.

⁵ What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?

⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams, and ye hills, like lambs of the flock?

⁷ At the presence of the Lord the earth was moved, at the presence of the God of Jacob:

⁸ Who turned the rock into pools of water, and the stony hill into fountains of waters.

⁹ Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory.

¹⁰ For thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake: lest the gentiles should say: Where is their God?

¹¹ But our God is in heaven: he hath done all things whatsoever he would.

¹² The idols of the gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men.

¹³ They have mouths and speak not: they have eyes and see not.

¹⁴ They have ears and hear not: they have noses and smell not.

¹⁵ They have hands and feel not: they have feet and walk not: neither shall they cry out through their throat.

¹⁶ Let them that make them become like unto them: and all such as trust in them.

¹⁷ The house of Israel hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.

¹⁸ The house of Aaron hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.

¹⁹ They that fear the Lord hath hoped in the Lord: he is their helper and their protector.

²⁰ The Lord hath been mindful of us, and hath blessed us. He hath blessed the house of Israel: he hath blessed the house of Aaron.

²¹ He hath blessed all that fear the Lord, both little and great.

²² May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children.

²³ Blessed be you of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

²⁴ The heaven of heaven is the Lord's: but the earth he has given to the children of men.

²⁵ The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.

²⁶ But we that live bless the Lord: from this time now and for ever.

¹⁹ These also are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac:

²⁰ Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.

²¹ And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

²² But the children struggled in her womb: and she said: If it were to be so with me, what need was there to conceive? And she went to consult the Lord.

²³ And he answering said: Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided out of thy womb, and one people shall overcome the other, and the elder shall serve the younger.

²⁴ And when her time was come to be delivered, behold twins were found in her womb.

²⁵ He that came forth first was red, and hairy like a skin: and his name was called Esau. Immediately the other coming forth, held his brother's foot in his hand, and therefore he was called Jacob.

²⁶ Isaac was threescore years old when the children were born unto him.

²⁷ And when they were grown up, Esau became a skillful hunter, and a husbandman, but Jacob a plain man dwelt in tents.

²⁸ Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his hunting: and Rebecca loved Jacob.

¹⁵ Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

¹⁶ For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and in him.

¹⁷ And he is before all, and by him all things consist.

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:

¹⁹ Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fullness should dwell;

²⁰ And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.