Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

149 Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be in the church of the saints.

² Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king.

³ Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.

⁴ For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.

⁵ The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall be joyful in their beds.

⁶ The high praise of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands:

⁷ To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the people:

⁸ To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron.

⁹ To execute upon them the judgment that is written: this glory is to all his saints. Alleluia.

9 And the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao, and speak to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me.

² But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:

³ Behold my hand shall be upon thy fields: and a very grievous murrain upon thy horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep.

⁴ And the Lord will make a wonderful difference between the possessions of Israel and the possessions of the Egyptians, that nothing at all shall die of those things that belong to the children of Israel.

⁵ And the Lord appointed a time, saying: To morrow will the Lord do this thing in the land.

⁶ The Lord therefore did this thing the next day: and all the beasts of the Egyptians died, but of the beasts of the children of Israel there died not one.

⁷ And Pharao sent to see: and there was not any thing dead of that which Israel possessed. And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

¹¹ I am become foolish: you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: for I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.

¹² Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

¹³ For what is there that you have had less than the other churches, but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury.

¹⁴ Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

¹⁵ But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls; although loving you more, I be loved less.

¹⁶ But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught you by guile.

¹⁷ Did I overreach you by any of them whom I sent to you?

¹⁸ I desired Titus, and I sent with him a brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk with the same spirit? did we not in the same steps?

¹⁹ Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ; but all things, my dearly beloved, for your edification.

²⁰ For I fear lest perhaps when I come I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

²¹ Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before, and have not done penance for the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, that they have committed.