Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ Halelu-JAH. Sing unto the LORD a new song, let his praise be in the congregation of the merciful.

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

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

⁴ For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he will beautify the humble with saving health.

⁵ The merciful shall be joyful with glory; they shall sing aloud upon their beds.

⁶ ¶ The high praises of God shall be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand,

⁷ to execute vengeance upon the Gentiles and punishments upon the peoples,

⁸ to imprison their kings with fetters and their nobles with chains of iron,

⁹ to execute upon them the judgment written: this shall be glory for all his merciful ones. Halelu-JAH.

11 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, I will bring one more plague upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt, after which he will let you go from here; when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out of here altogether.

² Speak now to the people and let each man demand of his neighbour and each woman of her neighbour, vessels of silver and of gold.

³ And the LORD gave the people grace in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s slaves, and in the sight of the people.

⁴ ¶ And Moses said, The LORD hath said thus, 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 that sits upon his throne even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill and all the firstborn of beasts.

⁶ And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been one like it, nor shall there ever be any like it again.

⁷ But among all the sons of Israel, from man to beast, not a dog shall move his tongue, that ye may know that the LORD shall make a difference between the Egyptians and the Israelites.

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

⁹ And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: but the LORD had hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

²⁹ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the sepulchres of the righteous

³⁰ and 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 Therefore ye are witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

³² Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

³³ Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the judgment of hell?

³⁴ ¶ Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes, and some of them ye shall kill and crucify, {Gr. stauroo – Hang on a stake} and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city,

³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye murdered between the temple and the altar.

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