Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ ¶ Halelu-JAH. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in the firmament of his power.

² Praise him for his mighty acts; praise him according to his excellent greatness.

³ Praise him with the sound of the shofar; praise him with the psaltery and harp.

⁴ Praise him with the timbrel and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

⁵ Praise him upon the loud cymbals; praise him upon the cymbals of joy.

⁶ Let every thing that has breath praise JAH. Halelu-JAH.

30 ¶ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

² Thus hath the LORD God of Israel spoken, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

³ For, Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will turn the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, said the LORD, and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

⁴ And these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

⁵ For thus hath the LORD said; We have heard a voice of trembling, of terror, and not of peace.

⁶ Ask now, and see whether the man doth travail with child? for I have seen that every man has his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail; and all faces have turned pale.

⁷ Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

⁸ For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of the hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no longer place him in servitude,

⁹ but they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

¹⁰ ¶ Therefore fear thou not, O my slave Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I am he that saves thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall turn, and shall rest, and be quiet, and there shall be no one left to scatter him.

¹¹ For I shall be with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee; and I shall make a full end in all Gentiles among whom I scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will chastise thee with judgment and will not cut thee off altogether.

¹⁰ In this the sons of God are manifest, and the sons of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness and that loves not his brother is not of God.

¹¹ ¶ For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, That we should love one another.

¹² Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

¹³ Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hates you.

¹⁴ ¶ We know that we are passed from death unto life, in that we love the brethren. He that does not love his brother abides in death.

¹⁵ Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

¹⁶ In this we have known the charity of God because he laid down his life for us; we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.