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.

20 And the children of Israel, the whole assembly, came into the wilderness of Zin, in the first month; and the people abode at Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

² And there was no water for the assembly, and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

³ And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!

⁴ And why have ye brought the congregation of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

⁵ And why have ye made us to go up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink.

⁶ And Moses and Aaron went from before the congregation to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and fell upon their faces; and the glory of Jehovah appeared to them.

⁷ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

⁸ Take the staff, and gather the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, and it shall give its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock, and shalt give the assembly and their beasts drink.

⁹ And Moses took the staff from before Jehovah, as he had commanded him.

¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said to them, Hear now, ye rebels: shall we bring forth to you water out of this rock?

¹¹ And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his staff smote the rock twice, and much water came out, and the assembly drank, and their beasts.

¹² And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to hallow me before the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land that I have given them.

¹³ These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel contended with Jehovah, and he hallowed himself in them.

⁶ But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

⁷ Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

⁸ Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

⁹ Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents.

¹⁰ Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

¹¹ Now all these things happened to them [as] types, and have been written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

¹² So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

¹³ No temptation has taken you but such as is according to man's nature; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able [to bear], but will with the temptation make the issue also, so that [ye] should be able to bear [it].