Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

95 Come, we sing to Jehovah, We shout to the rock of our salvation.

² We come before His face with thanksgiving, With psalms we shout to Him.

³ For a great God [is] Jehovah, And a great king over all gods.

⁴ In whose hand [are] the deep places of earth, And the strong places of hills [are] His.

⁵ Whose is the sea, and He made it, And His hands formed the dry land.

⁶ Come in, we bow ourselves, and we bend, We kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

⁷ For He [is] our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken,

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

⁹ Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

¹⁰ Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, `A people erring in heart -- they! And they have not known My ways:'

¹¹ Where I sware in Mine anger, `If they come in unto My rest -- !'

16 And they journey from Elim, and all the company of the sons of Israel come in unto the wilderness of Sin, which [is] between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month of their going out from the land of Egypt.

² And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

³ and the sons of Israel say unto them, `Oh that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety -- for ye have brought us out unto this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.'

⁴ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Lo, I am raining to you bread from the heavens -- and the people have gone out and gathered the matter of a day in its day -- so that I try them whether they walk in My law, or not;

⁵ and it hath been on the sixth day, that they have prepared that which they bring in, and it hath been double above that which they gather day [by] day.'

⁶ And Moses saith -- Aaron also -- unto all the sons of Israel, `Evening -- and ye have known that Jehovah hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

⁷ and morning -- and ye have seen the honour of Jehovah, in His hearing your murmurings against Jehovah, and what [are] we, that ye murmur against us?'

⁸ And Moses saith, `In Jehovah's giving to you in the evening flesh to eat, and bread in the morning to satiety -- in Jehovah's hearing your murmurings, which ye are murmuring against Him, and what [are] we? your murmurings [are] not against us, but against Jehovah.'

¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

¹⁶ because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

¹⁷ and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

¹⁸ And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all [things] -- himself -- first,

¹⁹ because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

²⁰ and through him to reconcile the all things to himself -- having made peace through the blood of his cross -- through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.

²¹ And you -- once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

²² in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,

²³ if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that [is] under the heaven, of which I became -- I Paul -- a ministrant.