Revised Common Lectionary

^1:1In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, ²the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. ³Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. ⁴And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. ⁵God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

⁶And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” ⁷So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. ⁸God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

⁹And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. ¹⁰God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. ¹¹Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so. ¹²The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. ¹³And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

¹⁴And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, ¹⁵and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. ¹⁶God made the two great lights — the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night — and the stars. ¹⁷God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, ¹⁸to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

²⁰And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.” ²¹So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. ²²God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” ²³And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

²⁴And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.” And it was so. ²⁵God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” ²⁷So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. ²⁸God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” ²⁹God said, “See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. ³⁰And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. ³¹God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

^2:1Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. ²And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. ³So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.

⁴These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created.

¹   O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
          for his steadfast love endures forever.
²   O give thanks to the God of gods,
          for his steadfast love endures forever.
³   O give thanks to the Lord of lords,
          for his steadfast love endures forever;

⁴   who alone does great wonders,
          for his steadfast love endures forever;
⁵   who by understanding made the heavens,
          for his steadfast love endures forever;
⁶   who spread out the earth on the waters,
          for his steadfast love endures forever;
⁷   who made the great lights,
          for his steadfast love endures forever;
⁸   the sun to rule over the day,
          for his steadfast love endures forever;
⁹   the moon and stars to rule over the night,
          for his steadfast love endures forever;

²³  It is he who remembered us in our low estate,
          for his steadfast love endures forever;
²⁴  and rescued us from our foes,
          for his steadfast love endures forever;
²⁵  who gives food to all flesh,
          for his steadfast love endures forever.

²⁶  O give thanks to the God of heaven,
          for his steadfast love endures forever.

^7:1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation. ²Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and its mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and its mate; ³and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴For in seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” ⁵And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.

¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. ¹²The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights. ¹³On the very same day Noah with his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons entered the ark, ¹⁴they and every wild animal of every kind, and all domestic animals of every kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every bird of every kind — every bird, every winged creature. ¹⁵They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. ¹⁶And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

¹⁷The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. ¹⁸The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the face of the waters.

^8:6At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made ⁷and sent out the raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. ⁸Then he sent out the dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground; ⁹but the dove found no place to set its foot, and it returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took it and brought it into the ark with him. ¹⁰He waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark; ¹¹and the dove came back to him in the evening, and there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. ¹²Then he waited another seven days, and sent out the dove; and it did not return to him any more.

¹³In the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and saw that the face of the ground was drying. ¹⁴In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. ¹⁵Then God said to Noah, ¹⁶“Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. ¹⁷Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh — birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth — so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” ¹⁸So Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.

^9:8Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, ⁹“As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, ¹⁰and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. ¹¹I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” ¹²God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: ¹³I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.”

¹   God is our refuge and strength,
          a very present help in trouble.
²   Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change,
          though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;
³   though its waters roar and foam,
          though the mountains tremble with its tumult.                  Selah

⁴There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
          the holy habitation of the Most High.
⁵   God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved;
          God will help it when the morning dawns.
⁶   The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter;
          he utters his voice, the earth melts.
⁷   The LORD of hosts is with us;
          the God of Jacob is our refuge.                                                     Selah

⁸Come, behold the works of the LORD;
          see what desolations he has brought on the earth.
⁹   He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
          he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear;
          he burns the shields with fire.
¹⁰  “Be still, and know that I am God!
          I am exalted among the nations,
          am exalted in the earth.”
¹¹  The LORD of hosts is with us;
          the God of Jacob is our refuge.                                                     Selah

¹After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” ²He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.” ³So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and set out and went to the place in the distance that God had shown him. ⁴On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far away. ⁵Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the boy and I will go over there; we will worship, and then we will come back to you.” ⁶Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together. ⁷Isaac said to his father Abraham, “Father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” ⁸Abraham said, “God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together.

⁹When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. ¹⁰Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son. ¹¹But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” ¹²He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” ¹³And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴So Abraham called that place “The LORD will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”

¹⁵The angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven, ¹⁶and said, “By myself I have sworn, says the LORD: Because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son, ¹⁷I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies, ¹⁸and by your offspring shall all the nations of the earth gain blessing for themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.”

¹   Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
²   I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord;
          I have no good apart from you.”

³   As for the holy ones in the land, they are the noble,
          in whom is all my delight.

⁴   Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows;
          their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out
          or take their names upon my lips.

⁵   The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup;
          you hold my lot.
⁶   The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
          I have a goodly heritage.

⁷   I bless the LORD who gives me counsel;
          in the night also my heart instructs me.
⁸   I keep the LORD always before me;
          because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

⁹Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices;
          my body also rests secure.
¹⁰  For you do not give me up to Sheol,
          or let your faithful one see the Pit.

¹¹  You show me the path of life.
          In your presence there is fullness of joy;
          in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

^14:10As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to the LORD. ¹¹They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? ¹²Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, ‘Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” ¹³But Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that the LORD will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see again. ¹⁴The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to keep still.”

¹⁵Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to go forward. ¹⁶But you lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the Israelites may go into the sea on dry ground. ¹⁷Then I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them; and so I will gain glory for myself over Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots, and his chariot drivers. ¹⁸And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gained glory for myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his chariot drivers.”

¹⁹The angel of God who was going before the Israelite army moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and took its place behind them. ²⁰It came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel. And so the cloud was there with the darkness, and it lit up the night; one did not come near the other all night.

²¹Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land; and the waters were divided. ²²The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. ²³The Egyptians pursued, and went into the sea after them, all of Pharaoh's horses, chariots, and chariot drivers. ²⁴At the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and cloud looked down upon the Egyptian army, and threw the Egyptian army into panic. ²⁵He clogged their chariot wheels so that they turned with difficulty. The Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the Israelites, for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt.”

²⁶Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and chariot drivers.” ²⁷So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea returned to its normal depth. As the Egyptians fled before it, the LORD tossed the Egyptians into the sea. ²⁸The waters returned and covered the chariots and the chariot drivers, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not one of them remained. ²⁹But the Israelites walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

³⁰Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. ³¹Israel saw the great work that the LORD did against the Egyptians. So the people feared the LORD and believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.

^15:20Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing. ²¹And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.”

^1b  “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously;
          horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.
²   The LORD is my strength and my might,
          and he has become my salvation;
     this is my God, and I will praise him,
          my father&rsquos God, and I will exalt him.
³   The LORD is a warrior;
          the LORD is his name.

⁴   “Pharaoh’s chariots and his army he cast into the sea;
          his picked officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
⁵   The floods covered them;
          they went down into the depths like a stone.
⁶   Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power —
          your right hand, O LORD, shattered the enemy.
⁷   In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries;
          you sent out your fury, it consumed them like stubble.
⁸   At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up,
          the floods stood up in a heap;
          the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
⁹   The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake,
          I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
          I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’
¹⁰  You blew with your wind, the sea covered them;
          they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

¹¹  “Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods?
          Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
          awesome in splendor, doing wonders?
¹²  You stretched out your right hand,
          the earth swallowed them.

¹³  “In your steadfast love you led the people whom you redeemed;
          you guided them by your strength to your holy abode.

¹⁷  You brought them in and planted them on the mountain of your own possession,
          the place, O LORD, that you made your abode,
           the sanctuary, O LORD, that your hands have established.
¹⁸   The LORD will reign forever and ever.”

¹   Ho, everyone who thirsts,
          come to the waters;
     and you that have no money,
          come, buy and eat!
     Come, buy wine and milk
          without money and without price.
²   Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
          and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
     Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,
          and delight yourselves in rich food.
³   Incline your ear, and come to me;
          listen, so that you may live.
     I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
          my steadfast, sure love for David.
⁴   See, I made him a witness to the peoples,
          a leader and commander for the peoples.
⁵   See, you shall call nations that you do not know,
          and nations that do not know you shall run to you,
     because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel,
          for he has glorified you.

⁶   Seek the LORD while he may be found,
          call upon him while he is near;
⁷   let the wicked forsake their way,
          and the unrighteous their thoughts;
     let them return to the LORD, that he may have mercy on them,
          and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
⁸   For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
          nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.
⁹   For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
          so are my ways higher than your ways
          and my thoughts than your thoughts.

¹⁰  For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
          and do not return there until they have watered the earth,
     making it bring forth and sprout,
          giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
¹¹  so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
          it shall not return to me empty,
     but it shall accomplish that which I purpose,
          and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

²   Surely God is my salvation;
          I will trust, and will not be afraid,
     for the LORD GOD is my strength and my might;
          he has become my salvation.

³With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. ⁴And you will say
in that day:
     Give thanks to the LORD,
          call on his name;
     make known his deeds among the nations;
          proclaim that his name is exalted.

⁵   Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously;
          let this be known in all the earth.
⁶   Shout aloud and sing for joy, O royal Zion,
          for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

^8:1   Does not wisdom call,
          and does not understanding raise her voice?
²   On the heights, beside the way,
          at the crossroads she takes her stand;
³   beside the gates in front of the town,
          at the entrance of the portals she cries out:
⁴   “To you, O people, I call,
          and my cry is to all that live.
⁵   O simple ones, learn prudence;
          acquire intelligence, you who lack it.
⁶   Hear, for I will speak noble things,
          and from my lips will come what is right;
⁷   for my mouth will utter truth;
          wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
⁸   All the words of my mouth are righteous;
          there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.

¹⁹  My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold,
          and my yield than choice silver.
²⁰  I walk in the way of righteousness,
          along the paths of justice,
²¹  endowing with wealth those who love me,
          and filling their treasuries.”

^9:4b    To those without sense she says,
⁵   “Come, eat of my bread
          and drink of the wine I have mixed.
⁶   Lay aside immaturity, and live,
          and walk in the way of insight.”

¹   The heavens are telling the glory of God;
          and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
²   Day to day pours forth speech,
          and night to night declares knowledge.
³   There is no speech, nor are there words;
          their voice is not heard;
⁴   yet their voice goes out through all the earth,
          and their words to the end of the world.

     In the heavens he has set a tent for the sun,
⁵   which comes out like a bridegroom from his wedding canopy,
          and like a strong man runs its course with joy.
⁶   Its rising is from the end of the heavens,
          and its circuit to the end of them;
          and nothing is hidden from its heat.

⁷   The law of the LORD is perfect,
          reviving the soul;
     the decrees of the LORD are sure,
          making wise the simple;

⁸   the precepts of the LORD are right,
          rejoicing the heart;
     the commandment of the LORD is clear,
          enlightening the eyes;
⁹   the fear of the LORD is pure,
          enduring for ever;
     the ordinances of the LORD are true
          and righteous altogether.
¹⁰  More to be desired are they than gold,
          even much fine gold;
     sweeter also than honey,
          and drippings of the honeycomb.

¹¹  Moreover by them is your servant warned;
          in keeping them there is great reward.
¹²  But who can detect their errors?
          Clear me from hidden faults.
¹³  Keep back your servant also from the insolent;
          do not let them have dominion over me.
     Then I shall be blameless,
          and innocent of great transgression.

¹⁴  Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
          be acceptable to you,
          O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.

²⁴I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land. ²⁵I will sprinkle clean water upon y7ou, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. ²⁶A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. ²⁸Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

^42:1 As a deer longs for flowing streams,
          so my soul longs for you, O God.
²   My soul thirsts for God,
          for the living God.
     When shall I come and behold
          the face of God?
³   My tears have been my food
          day and night,
     while people say to me continually,
          “Where is your God?”

⁴   These things I remember,
          as I pour out my soul:
     how I went with the throng,
          and led them in procession to the house of God,
     with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,
          a multitude keeping festival.
⁵   Why are you cast down, O my soul,
          and why are you disquieted within me?
     Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
          my help ⁶and my God.

     My soul is cast down within me;
          therefore I remember you
     from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
          from Mount Mizar.

⁷   Deep calls to deep
          at the thunder of your cataracts;
     all your waves and your billows
          have gone over me.
⁸   By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,
          and at night his song is with me,
          a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹   I say to God, my rock,
          “Why have you forgotten me?
     Why must I walk about mournfully
          because the enemy oppresses me?”
¹⁰  As with a deadly wound in my body,
          my adversaries taunt me,
     while they say to me continually,
          “Where is your God?”

¹¹  Why are you cast down, O my soul,
          and why are you disquieted within me?
     Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
          my help and my God.

^43:1 Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause
          against an ungodly people;
     from those who are deceitful and unjust
          deliver me!
²   For you are the God in whom I take refuge;
          why have you cast me off?
     Why must I walk about mournfully
          because of the oppression of the enemy?

   O send out your light and your truth;
          let them lead me;
     let them bring me to your holy hill
          and to your dwelling.

⁴   Then I will go to the altar of God,
          to God my exceeding joy;
     and I will praise you with the harp,
          O God, my God.

⁵   Why are you cast down, O my soul,
          and why are you disquieted within me?
     Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
          my help and my God.

¹The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. ²He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. ³He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord GOD, you know.” ⁴Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. ⁵Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. ⁶I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.”

⁷So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. ⁸I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. ⁹Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” ¹⁰I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude.

¹¹Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’ ¹²Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. ¹³And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. ¹⁴I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken and will act,” says the LORD.

¹   Hear my prayer, O LORD;
          give ear to my supplications in your faithfulness;
          answer me in your righteousness.
²   Do not enter into judgment with your servant,
          for no one living is righteous before you.

³   For the enemy has pursued me,
          crushing my life to the ground,
          making me sit in darkness like those long dead.
sup>4   Therefore my spirit faints within me;
          my heart within me is appalled.

⁵   I remember the days of old,
          I think about all your deeds,
          I meditate on the works of your hands.
⁶   I stretch out my hands to you;
          my soul thirsts for you like a parched land.                    Selah

⁷   Answer me quickly, O LORD;
          my spirit fails.
     Do not hide your face from me,
          or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.
⁸   Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,
          for in you I put my trust.
     Teach me the way I should go,
          for to you I lift up my soul.

⁹   Save me, O LORD, from my enemies;
          I have fled to you for refuge.
¹⁰  Teach me to do your will,
          for you are my God.
     Let your good spirit lead me
          on a level path.

¹¹  For your name’s sake, O LORD, preserve my life.
          In your righteousness bring me out of trouble.
¹²  In your steadfast love cut off my enemies,
          and destroy all my adversaries,
          for I am your servant

¹⁴  Sing aloud, O daughter Zion;
          shout, O Israel!
     Rejoice and exult with all your heart,
          O daughter Jerusalem!
¹⁵  The LORD has taken away the judgments against you,
          he has turned away your enemies.
     The king of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst;
          you shall fear disaster no more.
¹⁶  On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:
     Do not fear, O Zion;
          do not let your hands grow weak.
¹⁷  The LORD, your God, is in your midst,
          a warrior who gives victory;
     he will rejoice over you with gladness,
          he will renew you in his love;
     he will exult over you with loud singing
¹⁸       as on a day of festival.
     I will remove disaster from you,
          so that you will not bear reproach for it.
¹⁹  I will deal with all your oppressors
          at that time.
     And I will save the lame
          and gather the outcast,
     and I will change their shame into praise
          and renown in all the earth.
²⁰  At that time I will bring you home,
          at the time when I gather you;
     for I will make you renowned and praised
          among all the peoples of the earth,
     when I restore your fortunes
          before your eyes, says the LORD.

¹   O sing to the LORD a new song,
          for he has done marvelous things.
     His right hand and his holy arm
          have gained him victory.
²   The LORD has made known his victory;
          he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations.
³   He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness
          to the house of Israel.
     All the ends of the earth have seen
          the victory of our God.

⁴   Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth;
          break forth into joyous song and sing praises.
⁵   Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre,
          with the lyre and the sound of melody.
⁶   With trumpets and the sound of the horn
          make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD.

⁷   Let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
          the world and those who live in it.
⁸   Let the floods clap their hands;
          let the hills sing together for joy
⁹   at the presence of the LORD, for he is coming
          to judge the earth.
     He will judge the world with righteousness,
          and the peoples with equity.

³Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

⁵For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ⁶We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. ⁷For whoever has died is freed from sin. ⁸But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. ¹⁰The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹   When Israel went out from Egypt,
          the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
²   Judah became God’s sanctuary,
          Israel his dominion.

³   The sea looked and fled;
          Jordan turned back.
⁴   The mountains skipped like rams,
          the hills like lambs.

⁵   Why is it, O sea, that you flee?
          O Jordan, that you turn back?
⁶   O mountains, that you skip like rams?
          O hills, like lambs?

⁷   Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the LORD,
          at the presence of the God of Jacob,
⁸   who turns the rock into a pool of water,
          the flint into a spring of water.

¹But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. ²They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, ³but when they went in, they did not find the body. ⁴While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. ⁵The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. ⁶Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, ⁷that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.” ⁸Then they remembered his words, ⁹and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. ¹⁰Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. ¹¹But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. ¹²But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.