Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

123 If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say:

² If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up against us,

³ Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

⁴ Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.

⁵ Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their teeth.

⁷ Our soul hath been delivered as a sparrow out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we are delivered.

⁸ Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

⁶ And Josue sent away the people, and the children of Israel went every one to his own possession to hold it:

⁷ And they served the Lord all his days, and the days of the ancients, that lived a long time after him, and who knew all the works of the Lord, which he had done for Israel.

⁸ And Josue the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years old,

⁹ And they buried him in the borders of his possession in Thamnathsare in mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaas.

¹⁰ And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord, and the works which he had done for Israel.

¹¹ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim.

¹² And they left the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and the gods of the people that dwelt round about them, and they adored them: and they provoked the Lord to anger.

¹³ Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth.

¹⁴ And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies:

¹⁵ But whithersoever they meant to go, the hand of the Lord was upon them, as he had said, and as he had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.

16 And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels: Go, and pour out the seven vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

² And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth, and there fell a sore and grievous wound upon men, who had the character of the beast; and upon them that adored the image thereof.

³ And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea, and there came blood as it were of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.

⁴ And the third poured out his vial upon the rivers and the fountains of waters; and there was made blood.

⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, who art, and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged these things:

⁶ For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

⁷ And I heard another, from the altar, saying: Yea, O Lord God Almighty, true and just are thy judgments.