Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples.

² Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him; speak of all his wondrous works.

³ Glory in his holy name; let the heart of those that seek the LORD rejoice.

⁴ Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his face continually.

⁵ Remember his marvellous works that he has done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth,

⁶ O ye seed of Abraham his slave, ye sons of Jacob his chosen.

⁷ He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ ¶ He has remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded for a thousand generations,

⁹ which covenant he made with Abraham and his oath unto Isaac

¹⁰ and confirmed the same unto Jacob by decree, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

¹¹ Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance,

³⁷ And he brought them forth with silver and gold, and there was not one sick person among their tribes.

³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them fell upon them.

³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering and fire to give light in the night.

⁴⁰ The people asked, and he brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹ He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places and became a river.

⁴² For he remembered his holy word with Abraham his slave.

⁴³ And he brought forth his people with joy and his chosen with singing

⁴⁴ and gave them the lands of the Gentiles, and they inherited the labour of the nations,

⁴⁵ that they might observe his statutes and keep his laws. Halelu-JAH.

21 ¶ And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did with Sarah as he had spoken.

² For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

³ And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

⁴ And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old as God had commanded him.

⁵ And Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born unto him.

⁶ Then Sarah said, God has made me to laugh so that all that hear will laugh with me.

⁷ And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? For I have born him a son in his old age.

⁸ But unto the Son he said, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a rod of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

⁹ Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore, God, even thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

¹⁰ And Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

¹¹ they shall perish; but thou dost remain; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

¹² and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall never fail.