Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

² Judah was his holiness, and Israel his dominion.

³ The sea saw it and fled; Jordan was driven back.

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs.

⁵ What came upon thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee? And thou O Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

⁶ Ye mountains, why didst ye skip like rams and ye little hills, like lambs?

⁷ At the presence of the Lord, the earth trembles, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁸ who turned the rock into a reservoir of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

¹⁹ For Pharaoh went in on horseback with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the sons of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

²⁰ And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

²¹ And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

⁷ But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the worldly do, for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

⁸ Be not ye therefore like unto them, for your Father knows what things ye have need of before ye ask him.

⁹ ¶ Ye, therefore, are to pray like this: Our Father who art in the heavens, Hallowed be thy name.

¹⁰ Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread.

¹² And set us free from our debts, as we set free our debtors.

¹³ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

¹⁴ For if ye set men free from their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also set you free;

¹⁵ but if ye do not set men free from their trespasses, neither will your Father set you free from your trespasses.