Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

150 Praise God in His Sanctuary! Praise Him in the firmament of His power.

² Praise Him in His mighty acts! Praise Him according to His excellent greatness.

³ Praise Him in the sound of the trumpet! Praise Him upon the viol and the harp.

⁴ Praise Him with timbrel and flute! Praise Him with virginals and organs.

⁵ Praise Him with sounding cymbals! Praise Him with high sounding cymbals.

⁶ Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!

¹⁵ “I will go and return to My place, until they acknowledge their fault and seek Me in their affliction. They will seek me diligently.”

6 Come and let us return to the LORD. For He has torn and He will heal us. He has wounded us and He will bind us up.

² After two days, He will revive us. On the third day, He will raise us up and we shall live in His sight.

³ Then we shall have knowledge and endeavor to know the LORD. His going forth is prepared as the morning. And He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter rain, to the earth.

⁴ “O Ephraim, what shall I do with you? O Judah, how shall I entreat you? For your goodness is as a morning cloud. And as the morning dew it goes away.

⁵ “Therefore, I have cut them down by the Prophets. I have killed them by the Words of My Mouth. And the judgments of you were as the light that goes forth.

⁶ “For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than Burnt Offerings.

¹ The elder, To the elect Lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not only me but also all who have known the truth

² for the truth’s sake, which dwells in us and shall be with us forever:

³ Grace be with you, mercy and peace, from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, with truth and love.

⁴ I rejoiced greatly that I found some of your children walking in truth, as per the Commandment we have received from the Father.

⁵ And now I encourage you, Lady, (not as writing a new Commandment to you, but the same which we had from the beginning) that we love one another.

⁶ And this is the love that we should walk in: His Commandments. This is the Commandment. As you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.