Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

50 The God of gods, The LORD, has spoken and called the Earth, from the rising up of the Sun to the going down thereof.

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, has God shined.

³ Our God shall come and shall not keep silent. A fire shall devour before Him, and a mighty storm shall be moved around Him.

⁴ He shall call the heaven above and the Earth, to judge His people.

⁵ “Gather My saints together to Me, those who make a covenant with Me with sacrifice.”

⁶ And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God is Judge Himself. Selah.

16 Then, the Word of the LORD came to Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying,

² “Because I exalted you out of the dust, and made you captain over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made My people Israel sin, to provoke Me with their sins,

³ “behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his House, and will make your House like the House of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

⁴ “He of Baasha’s stock who dies in the city, him shall the dogs eat. And the man from him who dies in the fields, shall the birds of the air eat.”

⁵ And the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his power, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

⁶ So, Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah. And Elah, his son, reigned in his place.

⁷ And also, the Word of the LORD came to Baasha, and to his House, by the hand of Jehu, the son of Hanani the Prophet: that he would be like the House of Jeroboam for all the wickedness that he had done in the sight of the LORD, in provoking Him with the work of his hands, and because he had killed.

⁴¹ And when He had come near, He looked at the city and wept for it,

⁴² saying, “O, if you had known (even at the least, and on this your day) those things which belong to your peace! But now are they hidden from your eyes.

⁴³ “For the days shall come upon you that your enemies will cast a rampart around you, and surround you, and trap you on every side,

⁴⁴ “And shall make you even with the ground (and your children who are in you). And they shall not leave a stone upon a stone within you. Because you did not know the time of your visitation.”