Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

99 The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble! He sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved!

² The Lord is great in Zion, and He is high above all the people.

³ Let them praise Thy great and fearsome name, for it is holy.

⁴ The King’s strength also loveth judgment; Thou dost establish equity; Thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

⁵ Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship at His footstool, for He is holy!

⁶ Moses and Aaron are among His priests, and Samuel among them that call upon His name; they called upon the Lord, and He answered them.

⁷ He spoke unto them in the cloudy pillar; they kept His testimonies and the ordinance that He gave them.

⁸ Thou didst answer them, O Lord our God; Thou wast a God that forgavest them, though Thou took vengeance on their inventions.

⁹ Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

⁶ “Understand, therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness, for thou art a stiffnecked people.

⁷ Remember, and forget not, how thou provoked the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.

⁸ Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was so angry with you as to have destroyed you.

⁹ When I had gone up into the mount to receive the tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode on the mount forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

¹⁰ And the Lord delivered unto me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them was written according to all the words which the Lord spoke with you on the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

¹¹ And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant.

¹² And the Lord said unto me, ‘Arise, get thee down quickly from hence, for thy people whom thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten image.’

¹³ “Furthermore the Lord spoke unto me, saying, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiffnecked people.

¹⁴ Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.’

10 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian Band,

² a devout man and one who feared God with all his house, who gave many alms to the people and prayed to God always.

³ He saw in a vision clearly, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in to him and saying unto him, “Cornelius!”

⁴ And when he looked on him, he was afraid and said, “What is it, lord?” And he said unto him, “Thy prayers and thine alms have risen up as a memorial before God.

⁵ And now send men to Joppa and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter.

⁶ He lodgeth with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside; he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.”

⁷ And when the angel who spoke unto Cornelius had departed, he called two of his household servants and a devout soldier from those who waited on him continually.

⁸ And when he had related all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.