Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

105 Praise the LORD! Call upon His Name! Declare His works among the people!

² Sing to Him! Sing praise to Him! Talk of all His wondrous works!

³ Rejoice in His Holy Name! Let the heart of those who seek the LORD, rejoice!

⁴ Seek the LORD and His strength. Seek His face continually.

⁵ Remember His marvelous works that He has done, His wonders and the judgments of His mouth

⁶ you seed of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob who are His Elect.

³⁷ He also brought them forth with silver and gold, and there was no one feeble among their tribes.

³⁸ Egypt was glad at their departing, for the fear of them had fallen upon them.

³⁹ He spread a cloud to be a covering, and fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰ They asked, and He brought quails; and He filled them with the bread of Heaven.

⁴¹ He opened the rock and the water flowed out and ran like a river in the dry places.

⁴² For He remembered His Holy Promise to Abraham, His servant.

⁴³ And He brought forth His people with joy and his chosen with gladness,

⁴⁴ and gave them the lands of the heathen. And they took the labors of the people in possession,

⁴⁵ so that they might keep His statutes and observe His Laws. Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD

²² Then Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.

²³ And when they came to Marah, they could not drink from the water of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore, the name of the place was called “Marah”.

²⁴ Then the people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

²⁵ And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he cast into the waters, the waters became sweet. There He made an ordinance and a law to them; and there He tested them,

²⁶ and said, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD, Your God, and will do that which is right in His sight, and will hear His Commandments, and keep all His Ordinances, then I will bring none of these diseases upon you which I brought upon the Egyptians. For I am the LORD Who heals you.”

²⁷ And they came to Elim, where there were twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.

13 This is the third time that I come to you. In the mouths of two or three witnesses shall every word stand.

² I told you before, and tell you now beforehand, as though I had been present a second time. So I write now - being absent from those who until now have sinned, and to all others - that if I come again, I will not spare anyone;

³ since you seek proof of Christ speaking in me, Who is not weak toward you, but is mighty in you.

⁴ For though He was crucified through His weakness, yet He lives through the power of God. And we, no doubt, are weak in Him. But we shall live with Him, through the power of God, toward you.