Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴⁰ Contempt was poured forth upon their princes: and he caused them to wander where there was no passing, and out of the way.

⁴¹ And he helped the poor out of poverty: and made him families like a flock of sheep.

⁴² The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop their mouth.

⁴³ Who is wise, and will keep these things: and will understand the mercies of the Lord?

¹² Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the land hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none passeth through?

¹³ And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave them, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it.

¹⁴ But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them.

¹⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

¹⁶ And I will scatter them among the nations, which they and their fathers have not known: and I will send the sword after them till they be consumed.

¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:

¹⁸ Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.

¹⁹ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we wasted and greatly confounded? because we have left the land, because our dwellings are cast down.

²⁰ Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and let your ears receive the word of his mouth: and teach your daughters wailing: and every one her neighbour mourning.

²¹ For death is come up through our windows, it is entered into our houses to destroy the children from without, the young men from the streets.

²² Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall fall as dung upon the face of the country, and as grass behind the back of the mower, and there is none to gather it.

²³ Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength, and let not the rich man glory in his riches:

²⁴ But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord.

²⁵ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit upon every one that hath the foreskin circumcised.

²⁶ Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the children of Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that have their hair polled round, that dwell in the desert: for all the nations are uncircumcised in the flesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

4 And as they were speaking to the people, the priests, and the officer of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,

² Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead:

³ And they laid hands upon them, and put them in hold till the next day; for it was now evening.

⁴ But many of them who had heard the word, believed; and the number of the men was made five thousand.

⁵ And it came to pass on the morrow, that their princes, and ancients, and scribes, were gathered together in Jerusalem;

⁶ And Annas the high priest, and Caiphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest.

⁷ And setting them in the midst, they asked: By what power, or by what name, have you done this?

⁸ Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them: Ye princes of the people, and ancients, hear:

⁹ If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he hath been made whole:

¹⁰ Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God hath raised from the dead, even by him this man standeth here before you whole.

¹¹ This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner.

¹² Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.