Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

105 Alleluia. Give glory to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

² Who shall declare the powers of the Lord? who shall set forth all his praises?

³ Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.

⁴ Remember us, O Lord, in the favour of thy people: visit us with thy salvation.

⁵ That we may see the good of thy chosen, that we may rejoice in the joy of thy nation: that thou mayst be praised with thy inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.

¹⁶ And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy one of the Lord.

¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiron.

¹⁸ And a fire was kindled in their congregation: the flame burned the wicked.

¹⁹ They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.

²⁰ And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.

²¹ They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

²² Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.

⁴⁵ And he was mindful of his covenant: and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

⁵ Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.

⁶ And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.

⁷ I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about, bowed down before my sheaf.

⁸ His brethren answered: Shalt thou be our king? or shall we be subject to thy dominion? Therefore this matter of his dreams and words ministered nourishment to their envy and hatred.

⁹ He dreamed also another dream, which he told his brethren, saying: I saw in a dream, as it were the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars worshipping me.

¹⁰ And when he had told this to his father and brethren, his father rebuked him, and said: What meaneth this dream that thou hast dreamed? shall I and thy mother, and thy brethren worship thee upon the earth?

¹¹ His brethren therefore envied him: but his father considered the thing with himself.

16 And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven.

² But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.

³ And in the morning: To day there will be a storm, for the sky is red and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky: and can you not know the signs of the times?

⁴ A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he left them, and went away.