Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

^1 [b]Give thanks to the Lord, invoke his name;^[c]
    proclaim his deeds among the peoples.
² Offer him honor with songs of praise;
    recount all his marvelous deeds.
³ Glory in his holy name;
    let the hearts^[d] of those who seek the Lord exult.
⁴ Reflect on the Lord and his strength;
    seek his face continually.
⁵ Remember the marvels he has wrought,
    his portents, and the judgments^[e] he has set forth.
⁶ You are the offspring of his servant Abraham,
    the children of Jacob, his chosen ones.^[f]
7 He is the Lord, our God;
    his judgments prevail all over the earth.
⁸ He is mindful of his covenant^[g] forever,
    the promise he laid down for a thousand generations,
⁹ the covenant he made with Abraham
    and the oath he swore to Isaac.^[h]
10 [i]He established it as a decree for Jacob,
    and as an everlasting covenant for Israel,
¹¹ saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
    as the portion of your heritage.”
^12 [j]When they were few in number,
    an insignificant group of strangers in it,
¹³ they wandered from nation to nation,
    from one kingdom to another.
¹⁴ He permitted no one to oppress them,
    and in their regard he warned kings:^[k]
15 “Do not touch my anointed ones;
    do no harm to my prophets.”^[l]

¹⁶ Then he invoked a famine on the land
    and destroyed their supply of bread.
¹⁷ But he had sent a man ahead of them,
    Joseph, who had been sold as a slave.
¹⁸ They shackled his feet with fetters
    and clamped an iron collar around his neck,
¹⁹ until what he had prophesied was fulfilled
    and the word of the Lord proved him true.
²⁰ The king ordered that he be released;
    the ruler of the peoples set him free.
²¹ He appointed him as master of his household
    and as ruler of all his possessions.
²² He was to instruct^[a] his princes as he deemed fit
    and to impart wisdom to his elders.
²³ Then Israel went down into Egypt;
    Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.^[b]
24 God greatly increased the number of his people
    and made them too strong for their foes,
²⁵ whose hearts he then turned^[c] to hate his people
    and to conspire against his servants.
²⁶ He sent his servant Moses,
    and Aaron whom he had chosen.
²⁷ They performed his signs among them
    and worked wonders in the land of Ham.
^28 [d]He sent darkness that enveloped the land,
    but they rebelled against his warnings.
²⁹ He turned their waters into blood,
    and all their fish were destroyed.
³⁰ Their land was saturated with frogs,
    even in the royal chambers.
³¹ At his command there came hordes of flies
    and gnats throughout their country.
³² He sent them hail instead of rain,
    and flashes of lightning in all their land.
³³ He struck down their vines and their fig trees
    and demolished the trees of their country.
³⁴ At his word the locusts came,
    as well as grasshoppers beyond all count.
³⁵ They gobbled up every green plant in the land
    and devoured the produce of the soil.
³⁶ He struck down all the firstborn of the land,
    the firstfruits of their manhood.
³⁷ Then he led out his people with silver and gold,
    and there was not one among their tribes who stumbled.
³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed,
    for dread of Israel had overwhelmed them.
³⁹ He spread a cloud over his people as a cover^[e]
    and a fire to give light by night.
⁴⁰ At their request he supplied them with quail,
    and he filled them with bread from heaven.^[f]
41 He split open a rock and water gushed forth,
    flowing through the wilderness like a river.^[g]

⁴² For he remembered the sacred promise
    that he had made to Abraham, his servant.