Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

33 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

² Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say to them: When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man, one of their meanest, and make him a watchman over them:

³ And he see the sword coming upon the land, and sound the trumpet, and tell the people:

⁴ Then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet, whosoever he be, and doth not look to himself, if the sword come, and cut him off: his blood shall be upon his own head.

⁵ He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not look to himself, his blood shall be upon him: but if he look to himself, he shall save his life.

⁶ And if the watchman see the sword coming, and sound not the trumpet: and the people look not to themselves, and the sword come, and cut off a soul from among them: he indeed is taken away in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at the hand of the watchman.

²⁹ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just,

³⁰ And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

³¹ Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

³² Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

³³ You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

³⁴ Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

³⁵ That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

³⁶ Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.