Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁽¹⁾ Listen, my people, to my teaching;
turn your ears to the words from my mouth.
² I will speak to you in parables
and explain mysteries from days of old.

³ The things which we have heard and known,
and which our fathers told us
⁴ we will not hide from their descendants;
we will tell the generation to come
the praises of Adonai and his strength,
the wonders that he has performed.

¹² He had done wonderful things
in the presence of their ancestors
in the land of Egypt,
in the region of Tzo‘an.
¹³ He split the sea and made them pass through,
he made the waters stand up like a wall.
¹⁴ He also led them by day with a cloud
and all night long with light from a fire.
¹⁵ He broke apart the rocks in the desert
and let them drink as if from boundless depths;
¹⁶ yes, he brought streams out of the rock,
making the water flow down like rivers.

¹⁷ Thus says Adonai, your Redeemer,
the Holy One of Isra’el:
“I am Adonai, your God,
who teaches you for your own good,
who guides you on the path you should take.
¹⁸ If only you would heed my mitzvot!
Then your peace would flow on like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
¹⁹ Your descendants would be numerous as the sand,
your offspring countless as its grains.
Their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from my presence.”

²⁰ Get out of Bavel! Flee the Kasdim!
With shouts of joy announce it, proclaim it!
Send the news out to the ends of the earth!
Say, “Adonai has redeemed his servant Ya‘akov.”
²¹ They weren’t thirsty when he led them through the deserts,
he made water flow from the rock for them —
he split the rock, and out gushed the water.