Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹² ¶ Blessed is the people whose God is the LORD; the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

¹³ The LORD looked from heaven; he saw all the sons of Adam.

¹⁴ From the place of his habitation he looked upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

¹⁵ He fashioned all of their hearts; he considers all their works.

¹⁶ The king is not saved by the multitude of the army; the mighty man does not escape by much strength.

¹⁷ A horse is a vain thing for salvation; neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

¹⁸ Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon those that fear him, upon those that wait for his mercy

¹⁹ to deliver their souls from death and to keep them alive in the famine.

²⁰ Our soul waited for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.

²¹ Therefore our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in the name of his holiness.

²² Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we have waited upon thee.

¹⁶ ¶ And it came to pass on the third day when the morning came, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount and the voice of the shofar {ram’s horn} exceeding loud, so that all the people that were in the camp trembled.

¹⁷ And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the lower part of the mount.

¹⁸ And all Mount Sinai smoked because the LORD had descended upon it in fire, and its smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

¹⁹ And the voice of the shofar sounded long and waxed louder and louder; Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

²⁰ And the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mount, and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount, and Moses went up.

²¹ And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people lest they break through the bounds to gaze upon the LORD, and many of them perish.

²² And also let the priests who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves lest the LORD break forth upon them.

²³ And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai; for thou hast charged us, saying, Set bounds about the mount and sanctify it.

²⁴ And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou and Aaron with thee, but let not the priests and the people break through the bounds to come up unto the LORD lest he break forth upon them.

²⁵ So Moses went down unto the people and spoke unto them.

¹⁴ For all that are led by the Spirit of God, the same are sons of God.

¹⁵ For ye have not received the spirit of slavery to be in fear again, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

¹⁶ For the same Spirit bears witness unto our spirit that we are sons of God,

¹⁷ ¶ and if sons, also heirs certainly of God and joint-heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together with him.