Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good; for his mercy endures for ever.

² Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy

³ and gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

¹⁷ ¶ The fools, because of the way of their rebellion, and because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all manner of food, and they drew near unto the gates of death.

¹⁹ Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

²⁰ He sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their graves.

²¹ Oh that men would praise the LORD for his mercy and for his wonderful works unto the sons of Adam!

²² And let them offer the sacrifices of praise and publish his works with singing.

⁸ ¶ And God spoke unto Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

⁹ Behold that I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you

¹⁰ and with every living soul that is with you, of the fowl, of the animals, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark to every animal of the earth,

¹¹ that I will establish my covenant with you, that all flesh shall not be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

¹² ¶ And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living soul that is with you, for perpetual ages:

¹³ I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

¹⁴ And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall appear in the clouds;

¹⁵ and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

¹⁶ And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I will look upon it that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth.

¹⁷ And God said unto Noah, This shall be the sign of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

³ ¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things in Christ;

⁴ according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in charity;

⁵ having marked out beforehand the way for us to be adopted as sons by Jesus Christ in himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

⁶ to the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has made us accepted in the beloved;