"Sanctuary"

“Baptism” by William P. Chappel (1870s). This scene depicts a congregation gathering at a beach on Corlear’s Hook for a service of baptism. Public Domain.

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Daily Readings from the Revised Common Lectionary
Psalm 114*; Jonah 1:1-17; 1 Corinthians 15:19-28

Psalm 114
New Revised Standard Version
 
1When 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 [Dance], 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.

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