Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

150 Hallelujah! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in the firmament of his power.

² Praise him in his mighty acts; praise him according to the abundance of his greatness.

³ Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with lute and harp;

⁴ Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe;

⁵ Praise him with loud cymbals; praise him with high sounding cymbals.

⁶ Let everything that hath breath praise Jah. Hallelujah!

¹⁵ I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

6 Come and let us return unto Jehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

² After two days will he revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before his face;

³ and we shall know,—we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth.

⁴ What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do unto thee, Judah? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away.

⁵ Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and my judgment goeth forth as the light.

⁶ For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

¹ The elder to [the] elect lady and her children, whom *I* love in truth, and not *I* only but also all who have known the truth,

² for the truth's sake which abides in us and shall be with us to eternity.

³ Grace shall be with you, mercy, peace from God [the] Father, and from [the] Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

⁴ I rejoiced greatly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received commandment from the Father.

⁵ And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from [the] beginning, that we should love one another.

⁶ And this is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, according as ye have heard from the beginning, that ye might walk in it.