Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

149 Praise ye the Lord! Sing unto the Lord a new song, and His praise in the congregation of saints!

² Let Israel rejoice in Him that made him; let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

³ Let them praise His name in the dance; let them sing praises unto Him with the timbrel and harp.

⁴ For the Lord taketh pleasure in His people; He will beautify the meek with salvation.

⁵ Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud upon their beds.

⁶ Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand

⁷ to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;

⁸ to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

⁹ to execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all His saints. Praise ye the Lord!

9 Then the Lord said unto Moses, “Go in unto Pharaoh and tell him, ‘Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

² For if thou refuse to let them go and wilt hold them still,

³ behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep. There shall be a very grievous pestilence.

⁴ And the Lord shall distinguish between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belong to the children of Israel.’”

⁵ And the Lord appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord shall do this thing in the land.”

⁶ And the Lord did that thing on the morrow; and all the cattle of Egypt died, but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

⁷ And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

¹¹ I have become a fool in glorying. Ye have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For in nothing am I inferior to the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

¹² Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.

¹³ For in what are ye inferior to other churches, unless it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!

¹⁴ Behold, for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

¹⁵ And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

¹⁶ But be it so, I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

¹⁷ Did I gain from you by any of those whom I sent unto you?

¹⁸ I desired Titus to go, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make any gain from you? Walked we not in the same spirit? Walked we not in the same steps?

¹⁹ Again, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ; but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

²⁰ For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you as ye would not, lest there be debates, envyings, wrath, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, boastings, tumults;

²¹ and lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.