Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Psalm 105

¹ O give thanks unto the Lord, call upon His name, make known His doings among the peoples!

² Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; meditate on and talk of all His marvelous deeds and devoutly praise them.

³ Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those rejoice who seek and require the Lord [as their indispensable necessity].

⁴ Seek, inquire of and for the Lord, and crave Him and His strength (His might and inflexibility to temptation); seek and require His face and His presence [continually] evermore.

⁵ [Earnestly] remember the marvelous deeds that He has done, His miracles and wonders, the judgments and sentences which He pronounced [upon His enemies, as in Egypt].^(A)

⁶ O you offspring of Abraham His servant, you children of Jacob, His chosen ones,

³⁷ He brought [Israel] forth also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.^(A)

³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen upon the people.^(B)

³⁹ The Lord spread a cloud for a covering [by day], and a fire to give light in the night.^(C)

⁴⁰ [The Israelites] asked, and He brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.^(D)

⁴¹ He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it ran in the dry places like a river.^(E)

⁴² For He [earnestly] remembered His holy word and promise to Abraham His servant.^(F)

⁴³ And He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen ones with gladness and singing,

⁴⁴ And gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan], and they reaped the fruits of those peoples’ labor,^(G)

⁴⁵ That they might observe His statutes and keep His laws [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them]. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

²² And on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each person; and all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses.

²³ He said to them, The Lord has said, Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord; bake and boil what you will bake and boil today; and all that remains over put aside for you to keep until morning.

²⁴ They laid it aside till morning, as Moses told them; and it did not become foul, neither was it wormy.

²⁵ Moses said, Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord. Today you shall find none in the field.

²⁶ Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there shall be none.

²⁷ On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.

²⁸ The Lord said to Moses, How long do you [people] refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?

²⁹ See, the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day the bread for two days; let every man remain in his place; let no man leave his place on the seventh day.

³⁰ So the people rested on the seventh day.

²³ And Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say to you, it will be difficult for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven.

²⁴ Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go into the kingdom of heaven.

²⁵ When the disciples heard this, they were utterly puzzled (astonished, bewildered), saying, Who then can be saved [^[a]from eternal death]?

²⁶ But Jesus looked at them and said, With men this is impossible, but all things are possible with God.^(A)

²⁷ Then Peter answered Him, saying, Behold, we have left [our] all and have become ^[b]Your disciples [sided with Your party and followed You]. What then shall we receive?

²⁸ Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, in the new age [the ^[c]Messianic rebirth of the world], when the Son of Man shall sit down on the throne of His glory, you who have [become My disciples, sided with My party and] followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel.

²⁹ And anyone and everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for My name’s sake will receive ^[d]many [even a hundred] times more and will inherit eternal life.

³⁰ But many who [now] are first will be last [then], and many who [now] are last will be first [then].