Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

126 A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back [to] the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers.

² Then filled [with] laughter is our mouth, And our tongue [with] singing, Then do they say among nations, `Jehovah did great things with these.'

³ Jehovah did great things with us, We have been joyful.

⁴ Turn again, O Jehovah, [to] our captivity, As streams in the south.

⁵ Those sowing in tears, with singing do reap,

⁶ Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!

²⁴ `And unto Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou dost speak, saying,

²⁵ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, saying, Because that thou hast sent in thy name letters unto all the people who [are] in Jerusalem, and unto Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, and unto all the priests, saying,

²⁶ Jehovah hath made thee priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, for there being inspectors of the house of Jehovah, for every one mad and making himself a prophet, and thou hast put him unto the torture and unto the stocks.

²⁷ And now, why hast thou not pushed against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is making himself a prophet to you?

²⁸ Because that he hath sent unto us to Babylon, saying, It [is] long, build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit.'

²⁹ And Zephaniah the priest readeth this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

³⁰ And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,

³¹ `Send unto all the removal, saying, Thus said Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, Because that Shemaiah prophesied to you, and I -- I have not sent him, and he doth cause you to trust on falsehood,

³² Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am seeing after Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and after his seed, he hath none dwelling in the midst of this people, nor doth he look on the good that I am doing to My people -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- for apostacy he hath spoken against Jehovah.'

²² And he cometh to Bethsaida, and they bring to him one blind, and call upon him that he may touch him,

²³ and having taken the hand of the blind man, he led him forth without the village, and having spit on his eyes, having put [his] hands on him, he was questioning him if he doth behold anything:

²⁴ and he, having looked up, said, `I behold men, as I see trees, walking.'

²⁵ Afterwards again he put [his] hands on his eyes, and made him look up, and he was restored, and discerned all things clearly,

²⁶ and he sent him away to his house, saying, `Neither to the village mayest thou go, nor tell [it] to any in the village.'