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!

9 Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars;

² she hath slaughtered her cattle, she hath mingled her wine, she hath also prepared her table;

³ she hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the summits of the high places of the city,

⁴ Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. To him that is void of understanding, she saith,

⁵ Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine that I have mingled.

⁶ Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence.

⁹ Now when he had risen very early, the first [day] of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, out of whom he had cast seven demons.

¹⁰ *She* went and brought word to those that had been with him, [who were] grieving and weeping.

¹¹ And when these heard that he was alive and had been seen of her, they disbelieved [it].

¹² And after these things he was manifested in another form to two of them as they walked, going into the country;

¹³ and *they* went and brought word to the rest; neither did they believe them.

¹⁴ Afterwards as they lay at table he was manifested to the eleven, and reproached [them with] their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who had seen him risen.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the glad tidings to all the creation.

¹⁶ He that believes and is baptised shall be saved, and he that disbelieves shall be condemned.

¹⁷ And these signs shall follow those that have believed: in my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;

¹⁸ they shall take up serpents; and if they should drink any deadly thing it shall not injure them; they shall lay hands upon the infirm, and they shall be well.