Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

106 Praise the LORD because He is good; for His mercy endures forever!

² Who can express the noble acts of the LORD, or proclaim all His praise?

³ Blessed are those who guard justice and do righteousness at all times.

⁴ Remember me, O LORD, with the favor of Your people. Visit me with Your salvation,

⁵ so that I may see the good things of Your chosen and rejoice in the joy of Your people, and glory with Your inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our Fathers. We have committed iniquity and done wickedly.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped the molten image.

²⁰ Thus, they turned their glory into the likeness of a bullock that eats grass.

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

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

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

¹² And the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me onto the mountain, and be there. And I will give you Tablets of stone, and the Law, and the Commandment which I have written, to teach them.”

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

¹⁴ and said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has any matters, let him come to them.

¹⁵ Then, Moses went up to the mount; and the cloud covered the mountain.

¹⁶ And the Glory of the LORD remained upon Mount Sinai; and the cloud covered it for six days. And the seventh day, He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

¹⁷ And the sight of the Glory of the LORD on the top of the mountain was like a consuming fire in the eyes of the children of Israel.

¹⁸ And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up to the mountain. And Moses was on the mount for forty days and forty nights.

¹⁸ And the disciples of John and the Pharisees fasted, and came and said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, and Your disciples do not?”

¹⁹ And Jesus said to them, “Can the children of the marriage chamber 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 from them. And then shall they fast, in those days.

²¹ “Also no one sows a piece of new cloth in an old garment. For the new piece that filled it up will take away somewhat from the old. And the breach is worse.

²² “Likewise, no one puts new wine into old vessels. For the new wine will break the vessels, and the wine will run out, and the vessels are lost. But new wine must be put into new vessels.”