Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

107 O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endureth for ever.

² Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He hath 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.

⁴ They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

⁵ Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.

⁶ Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses.

⁷ And He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city for habitation.

⁸ Oh that men would praise the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!

⁹ For He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

¹⁰ They that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and irons,

¹¹ because they rebelled against the words of God and contemned the counsel of the Most High,

¹² therefore He brought down their heart with labor; they fell down and there was none to help.

¹³ Then they cried unto the Lord 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 bonds asunder.

¹⁵ Oh that men would praise the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!

¹⁶ For He hath broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron asunder.

²² So 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 when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah [that is, Bitterness].

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

²⁵ And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He put them to the proof,

²⁶ and said, “If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord that healeth thee.”

²⁷ And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water and threescore and ten palm trees; and they encamped there by the waters.

3 Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

² who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses was faithful in all His house.

³ For this Man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who hath built the house hath more honor than the house.

⁴ For every house is built by some man, but He that built all things is God.

⁵ And Moses verily was faithful in all His house as a servant, as a testimony of those things which were to be spoken thereafter;

⁶ but Christ was faithful as a Son over His own house, whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope, firm unto the end.