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.

⁸ Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;

⁹ For he hath satisfied the longing soul and filled the hungry soul with good.

¹⁰ Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,

¹¹ Because they had rebelled against the words of God, and had despised the counsel of the Most High; …

¹² And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled, and there was none to help:

¹³ Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, [and] he saved them out of their distresses;

¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.

¹⁵ Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;

¹⁶ For he hath broken the gates of bronze, and cut asunder the bars of iron.

²² And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

²³ And they came to Marah, and could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore the name of it was called Marah.

²⁴ And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

²⁵ And he cried to Jehovah; and Jehovah shewed him wood, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance; and there he tested them.

²⁶ And he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and do what is right in his eyes, and incline thine ears to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the complaints upon thee that I have put upon the Egyptians; for I am Jehovah who healeth thee.

²⁷ And they came to Elim; and twelve springs of water were there, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there by the waters.

3 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of [the] heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,

² who is faithful to him that has constituted him, as Moses also in all his house.

³ For *he* has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than the house.

⁴ For every house is built by some one; but he who has built all things [is] God.

⁵ And Moses indeed [was] faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after;

⁶ but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are *we*, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end.