Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

148 Praise ye Jah! Praise ye Jehovah from the heavens, Praise ye Him in high places.

² Praise ye Him, all His messengers, Praise ye Him, all His hosts.

³ Praise ye Him, sun and moon, Praise ye Him, all stars of light.

⁴ Praise ye Him, heavens of heavens, And ye waters that are above the heavens.

⁵ They do praise the name of Jehovah, For He commanded, and they were created.

⁶ And He establisheth them for ever to the age, A statute He gave, and they pass not over.

⁷ Praise ye Jehovah from the earth, Dragons and all deeps,

⁸ Fire and hail, snow and vapour, Whirlwind doing His word;

⁹ The mountains and all heights, Fruit tree, and all cedars,

¹⁰ The wild beast, and all cattle, Creeping thing, and winged bird,

¹¹ Kings of earth, and all peoples, Chiefs, and all judges of earth,

¹² Young men, and also maidens, Aged men, with youths,

¹³ They praise the name of Jehovah, For His name alone hath been set on high, His honour [is] above earth and heavens.

¹⁴ And He exalteth the horn of His people, The praise of all His saints, Of the sons of Israel, a people near Him. Praise ye Jah!

¹⁸ And he saith, `Shew me, I pray Thee, Thine honour;'

¹⁹ and He saith, `I cause all My goodness to pass before thy face, and have called concerning the Name of Jehovah before thee, and favoured him whom I favour, and loved him whom I love.'

²⁰ He saith also, `Thou art unable to see My face, for man doth not see Me, and live;'

²¹ Jehovah also saith, `Lo, a place [is] by Me, and thou hast stood on the rock,

²² and it hath come to pass, in the passing by of Mine honour, that I have set thee in a cleft of the rock, and spread out My hands over thee, until My passing by,

²³ and I have turned aside My hands, and thou hast seen My back parts, and My face is not seen.'

1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --

² and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us --

³ that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;

⁴ and these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

⁵ And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

⁶ if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;

⁷ and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

⁸ if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

⁹ if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;