Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

107 Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

² Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the oppressor,

³ And gathered out of the countries, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea.

⁴ They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way, they found no city of habitation;

⁵ Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them:

⁶ Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, [and] he delivered them out of their distresses,

⁷ And he led them forth by a right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

³³ He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;

³⁴ A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

³⁵ He maketh the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs;

³⁶ And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, and they establish a city of habitation;

³⁷ And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits of increase;

1 And it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' attendant, saying,

² Moses my servant is dead; and now, rise up, go over this Jordan, thou and all this people, into the land which I give unto them, to the children of Israel.

³ Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread have I given to you, as I said unto Moses.

⁴ From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the river Euphrates, the whole land of the Hittites, to the great sea, toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

⁵ None shall be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee; I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.

⁶ Be strong and courageous, for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I have sworn unto their fathers to give them.

⁷ Only be strong and very courageous, that thou mayest take heed to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded thee. Turn not from it to the right or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

⁸ This book of the law shall not depart from thy mouth; and thou shalt meditate upon it day and night, that thou mayest take heed to do according to all that is written therein; for then shalt thou have good success in thy ways, and then shalt thou prosper.

⁹ Have I not commanded thee: Be strong and courageous? Be not afraid, neither be dismayed; for Jehovah thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

¹⁰ And Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,

¹¹ Go through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare yourselves victuals, for in three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, that ye may enter in to take possession of the land which Jehovah your God giveth you to possess it.

¹⁷ But if *thou* art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God,

¹⁸ and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

¹⁹ and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who [are] in darkness,

²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law:

²¹ thou then that teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? thou that preachest not to steal, dost thou steal?

²² thou that sayest [man should] not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

²³ thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?

²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, according as it is written.

²⁵ For circumcision indeed profits if thou keep [the] law; but if thou be a law-transgressor, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

²⁶ If therefore the uncircumcision keep the requirements of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision,

²⁷ and uncircumcision by nature, fulfilling the law, judge thee, who, with letter and circumcision, [art] a law-transgressor?

²⁸ For he is not a Jew who [is] one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh;

²⁹ but he [is] a Jew [who is so] inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.