Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

105 Give ye thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; make known his acts among the peoples.

² Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; meditate upon all his wondrous works.

³ Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.

⁴ Seek Jehovah and his strength, seek his face continually;

⁵ Remember his wondrous works which he hath done, his miracles and the judgments of his mouth:

⁶ Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.

¹⁶ And he called for a famine upon the land; he broke the whole staff of bread.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them: Joseph was sold for a bondman.

¹⁸ They afflicted his feet with fetters; his soul came into irons;

¹⁹ Until the time when what he said came about: the word of Jehovah tried him.

²⁰ The king sent and loosed him—the ruler of peoples—and let him go free.

²¹ He made him lord of his house, and ruler over all his possessions:

²² To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.

⁴⁵ That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Hallelujah!

⁵ And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told [it] to his brethren, and they hated him yet the more.

⁶ And he said to them, Hear, I pray you, this dream, which I have dreamt:

⁷ Behold, we were binding sheaves in the fields, and lo, my sheaf rose up, and remained standing; and behold, your sheaves came round about and bowed down to my sheaf.

⁸ And his brethren said to him, Wilt thou indeed be a king over us? wilt thou indeed rule over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words.

⁹ And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.

¹⁰ And he told [it] to his father and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamt? Shall we indeed come, I and thy mother and thy brethren, to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

¹¹ And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying.

16 And the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming to [him], asked him, tempting [him], to shew them a sign out of heaven.

² But he answering said to them, When evening is come, ye say, Fine weather, for the sky is red;

³ and in the morning, A storm to-day, for the sky is red [and] lowering; ye know [how] to discern the face of the sky, but ye cannot the signs of the times.

⁴ A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it save the sign of Jonas. And he left them and went away.