Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

45 Unto the end, for the sons of Core, for the hidden.

² Our God is our refuge and strength: a helper in troubles, which have found us exceedingly.

⁶ God is in the midst thereof, it shall not be moved: God will help it in the morning early.

⁷ Nations were troubled, and kingdoms were bowed down: he uttered his voice, the earth trembled.

⁸ The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.

⁹ Come and behold ye the works of the Lord: what wonders he hath done upon earth,

3 And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes.

² And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.

³ And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for thee.

⁴ For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

⁵ And after this the children of Israel shall return, and shall seek the Lord their God, and David their king: and they shall fear the Lord, and his goodness in the last days.

²⁸ Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was morning; and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.

²⁹ Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation bring you against this man?

³⁰ They answered, and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee.

³¹ Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death;

³² That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said, signifying what death he should die.