Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

133 Behold now bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord: Who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

² In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, and bless ye the Lord.

³ May the Lord out of Sion bless thee, he that made heaven and earth.

¹⁴ Forthwith at the king's command, Joseph was brought out of the prison, and they shaved him, and changing his apparel, brought him in to him.

¹⁵ And he said to him: I have dreamed dreams, and there is no one that can expound them: Now I have heard that thou art very wise at interpreting them.

¹⁶ Joseph answered: Without me, God shall give Pharao a prosperous answer.

¹⁷ So Pharao told what he had dreamed: Methought I stood upon the bank of the river,

¹⁸ And seven kine came up out of the river exceeding beautiful and full of flesh: and they grazed on green places in a marshy pasture.

¹⁹ And behold, there followed these, other seven kine, so very ill favoured and lean, that I never saw the like in the land of Egypt:

²⁰ And they devoured and consumed the former,

²¹ And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,

²² And dreamed a dream: Seven ears of corn grew upon one stalk, full and very fair.

²³ Other seven also thin and blasted, sprung of the stock:

²⁴ And they devoured the beauty of the former: I told this dream to the conjecturers, and there is no man that can expound it.

²⁵ Joseph answered: The king's dream is one: God hath shewn to Pharao what he is about to do.

²⁶ The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven years of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream.

²⁷ And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven years of famine to come:

²⁸ Which shall be fulfilled in this order:

²⁹ Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the whole land of Egypt:

³⁰ After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,

³¹ And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.

³² And for that thou didst see the second time a dream pertaining to the same thing: it is a token of the certainty, and that the word of God cometh to pass, and is fulfilled speedily.

³³ Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt:

³⁴ That he may appoint overseers over all the countries: and gather into barns the fifth part of the fruits, during the seven fruitful years,

³⁵ That shall now presently ensue: and let all the corn be laid up under Pharao's hands and be reserved in the cities.

³⁶ And let it be in readiness, against the famine of seven years to come, which shall oppress Egypt, and the land shall not be consumed with scarcity.

15 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and wonderful: seven angels having the seven last plagues. For in them is filled up the wrath of God.

² And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire, and them that had overcome the beast, and his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having the harps of God:

³ And singing the canticle of Moses, the servant of God, and the canticle of the Lamb, saying: Great and wonderful are thy works, O Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, O King of ages.

⁴ Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and magnify thy name? For thou only art holy: for all nations shall come, and shall adore in thy sight, because thy judgments are manifest.