Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

106 Praise ye the Lord! O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever.

² Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? Who can show forth all His praise?

³ Blessed are they that keep judgment and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

⁴ Remember me, O Lord, with the favor which Thou bearest unto Thy people; O visit me with Thy salvation,

⁵ that I may see the good of Thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness 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 worshiped the molten image.

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

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

²² wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearsome things by the Red Sea.

²³ Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, lest He should destroy them.

¹² And the Lord said unto Moses, “Come up to Me onto the mount, and be there; and I will give thee tablets of stone, and a law and commandments which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.”

¹³ And Moses rose up with his minister Joshua, and Moses went up onto the mount of God.

¹⁴ And he said unto the elders, “Tarry ye here for us until we come again unto you; and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. If any man have any matters to arbitrate, let him come unto them.”

¹⁵ And Moses went up onto the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

¹⁶ And the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and the seventh day He called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

¹⁷ And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

¹⁸ And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and got himself up onto the mount; and Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights.

¹⁸ And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast; and they came and said unto Him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?”

¹⁹ And Jesus said unto them, “Can the attendants of the bridechamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

²⁰ But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

²¹ “No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment, else the new piece that filled it up teareth away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

²² And no man putteth new wine into old wineskins, else the new wine doth burst the skins, and the wine is spilled and the skins will be marred. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”