Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

106 Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

² Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? [who] can shew forth all his praise?

³ Blessed are they that keep justice, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.

⁴ Remember me, O Jehovah, with [thy] favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:

⁵ That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;

²⁰ And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

²¹ They forgot God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,

²² Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

²³ And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy [them].

¹² And Jehovah said to Moses, Come up to me into the mountain, and be there; and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law, and the commandment that I have written, for their instruction.

¹³ And Moses rose up, and Joshua his attendant; and Moses went up to the mountain of God.

¹⁴ And he said to the elders, Wait here for us, until we return to you; and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matter, let him come before them.

¹⁵ And Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

¹⁶ And the glory of Jehovah abode on mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

¹⁷ And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Israel.

¹⁸ And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

¹⁸ And the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting; and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and [the disciples] of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?

¹⁹ And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

²⁰ But days will come when the bridegroom shall have been taken away from them, and then shall they fast in that day.

²¹ No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment: otherwise its new filling-up takes from the old [stuff], and there is a worse rent.

²² And no one puts new wine into old skins; otherwise the wine bursts the skins, and the wine is poured out, and the skins will be destroyed; but new wine is to be put into new skins.