Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

149 Hallelujah! Sing unto Jehovah a new song; [sing] his praise in the congregation of the godly.

² Let Israel rejoice in his Maker; let the sons of Zion be joyful in their King.

³ Let them praise his name in the dance; let them sing psalms unto him with the tambour and harp.

⁴ For Jehovah taketh pleasure in his people; he beautifieth the meek with salvation.

⁵ Let the godly exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.

⁶ Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand:

⁷ To execute vengeance against the nations, [and] punishment among the peoples;

⁸ To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

⁹ To execute upon them the judgment written. This honour have all his saints. Hallelujah!

9 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith Jehovah the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, that they may serve me.

² For if thou refuse to let them go, and shalt retain them still,

³ behold, the hand of Jehovah shall be on thy cattle which is in the field, on the horses, on the asses, on the camels, on the oxen and on the sheep, with a very grievous plague.

⁴ And Jehovah will distinguish between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that the children of Israel have.

⁵ And Jehovah appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow will Jehovah do this thing in the land.

⁶ And Jehovah did this thing on the following day, and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

⁷ And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

¹¹ I have become a fool; *ye* have compelled me; for *I* ought to have been commended by you; for I have been nothing behind those who were in surpassing degree apostles, if also I am nothing.

¹² The signs indeed of the apostle were wrought among you in all endurance, signs, and wonders, and works of power.

¹³ For in what is it that ye have been inferior to the other assemblies, unless that I myself have not been in laziness a charge upon you? Forgive me this injury.

¹⁴ Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

¹⁵ Now *I* shall most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls, if even in abundantly loving you I should be less loved.

¹⁶ But be it so. *I* did not burden you, but being crafty I took you by guile.

¹⁷ Did I make gain of you by any of those whom I have sent to you?

¹⁸ I begged Titus, and sent the brother with [him]: did Titus at all make gain of you? have we not walked in the same spirit? [have we] not in the same steps?

¹⁹ Ye have long been supposing that we excuse ourselves to you: we speak before God in Christ; and all things, beloved, for your building up.

²⁰ For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest [there might be] strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;

²¹ lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised.