Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Zain

¹² The wicked plots against the just and gnashes upon him with his teeth.

¹³ The Lord shall laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

He

¹⁴ The wicked have drawn out the sword and have bent their bow to cast down the poor and needy and to slay such as are of upright conversation.

¹⁵ Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bow shall be broken.

Tet

¹⁶ A little that a righteous man has is better than the many riches of the sinners.

¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

Jod

¹⁸ The LORD knows the days of the perfect, and their inheritance shall be for ever.

¹⁹ They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Caph

²⁰ But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD as the fattest of rams shall be consumed; as smoke they shall fade away.

Lamed

²¹ ¶ The wicked borrows and does not repay: but the righteous shows mercy and gives.

²² For such as are blessed of him shall inherit the earth, and those that are cursed of him shall be cut off.

²⁹ Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the books of Nathan, the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah, the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo, the seer against Jeroboam, the son of Nebat?

³⁰ And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

³¹ And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David, his father; and Rehoboam, his son, reigned in his stead.

³⁵ And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed;

³⁶ send them away that they may go into the country round about and into the villages and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.

³⁷ He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said unto him, Shall we go and buy bread for two hundred denarius and give them to eat?

³⁸ He said unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they said, Five, and two fishes.

³⁹ And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

⁴⁰ And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.

⁴¹ And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before them, and the two fishes he divided among them all.

⁴² And they all ate and were filled.

⁴³ And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments and of the fishes.

⁴⁴ And those that ate were five thousand men.