Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
ZAIN
49 Remember the Promise made to Your servant, wherein You have caused me to trust.
50 It is my comfort in my trouble. Your Promise has quickened me.
51 The proud deride me exceedingly, yet have I not turned away from Your Law.
52 I remembered Your Judgments of old, O LORD, and have been comforted.
53 Burning indignation has come upon me because of the wicked, who forsake Your Law.
54 Your Statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I have remembered Your Name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept Your Law.
56 This is because I kept Your Precepts.
16 “Now when I had delivered the deed of purchase to Baruch, the son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD, saying,
17 ‘Ah, LORD God, behold. You have made the heaven and the earth by Your great power, and by Your outstretched Arm. And there is nothing hard for You.
18 ‘You show mercy to thousands and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. O, God! The great and mighty! Whose Name is the LORD of Hosts,
19 ‘great in counsel and mighty in work, (for Your Eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give to everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his works)
20 ‘Who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt to this day and in Israel and among all men and has made Yourself a Name, as it is this day,
21 ‘and has brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and an outstretched Arm, and with great terror.
22 ‘And You have given them this land which You swore to their fathers to give them, a land that flows with milk and honey.
23 ‘And they came in and possessed it. But they did not obey Your Voice or walk in Your Law. All that You Commanded them to do, they have not done. Therefore, You have caused this whole plague to come upon them.
24 ‘Behold the siege mounts. They have come into the city, to take it. And the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, who fight against it by means of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence. And what You have spoken has come to pass. And behold, You see it.
25 ‘And You have said to me, O LORD God: “Buy the field for silver, and take witnesses.” For the city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’”
26 Then came the Word of the LORD to Jeremiah, saying:
27 “Behold, I am the LORD, God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?”
28 Therefore thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel. And he shall take it.
29 “And the Chaldeans shall come and fight against this city and set fire to this city and burn it with the houses upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal and poured drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger.
30 “For the children of Israel, and the children of Judah, have surely done evil before Me from their youth. For the children of Israel have surely provoked Me to anger with the works of their hands,” says the LORD.
31 “Therefore this city has been to Me as a provocation of My anger, and of My wrath, from the day that they built it until this day, so that I should remove it out of My sight
32 “because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger — they, their kings, their princes, their priests, their Prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
33 “And they have turned the back to Me and not the face. Though I taught them, rising up early and instructing them, still they were not obedient to receive doctrine.
34 “But they set their abominations in the House upon which My Name was called, to defile it.
35 “And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them. Nor did it come into My mind that they should do such abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
14 “And to the angel of the Church of the Laodiceans write: ‘These things says the Amen; the faithful and true Witness; the beginning of the creatures of God.
15 ‘I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I desire that you were either cold or hot.
16 ‘Therefore, because you are lukewarm - and neither cold nor hot – I am about to spew you out of My mouth.
17 ‘For you say, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing,” and do not know how wretched and miserable you are, and poor and blind and naked.
18 ‘I counsel you to buy from Me gold tried by the fire, so that you may be made rich; and white raiment, so that you may be clothed and that your filthy nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.
19 ‘As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous, therefore, and repent.
20 ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.
21 ‘To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, even as I overcame and sit with My Father on His throne.
22 ‘Let he who has an ear, hear what the Spirit says to the Churches.’”
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