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!

11 And Jehovah said to Moses, Yet one plague will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let [you] go altogether, he shall utterly drive you out hence.

² Speak now in the ears of the people, that they ask every man of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, utensils of silver and utensils of gold.

³ And Jehovah gave the people favour in the eyes of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt—in the eyes of Pharaoh's bondmen, and in the eyes of the people.

⁴ And Moses said, Thus saith Jehovah: About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt.

⁵ And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sitteth on his throne, even unto the firstborn of the bondwoman that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle.

⁶ And there shall be a great cry throughout the land of Egypt, such as there hath been none like it, nor shall be like it any more.

⁷ But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast; that ye may know that Jehovah distinguisheth between the Egyptians and Israel.

⁸ And all these thy bondmen shall come down unto me, and bow down to me, saying, Go out, thou, and all the people that follow thee; and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a glowing anger.

⁹ And Jehovah had said to Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken to you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; but Jehovah made Pharaoh's heart stubborn, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

²⁹ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just,

³⁰ and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

³¹ So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets:

³² and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.

³³ Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?

³⁴ Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;

³⁵ so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

³⁶ Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.