Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
ז Zayin
49 Remember your word to your servant;
you have given me hope through it.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction:(A)
Your promise has given me life.
51 The arrogant constantly ridicule me,
but I do not turn away from your instruction.(B)
52 Lord, I remember your judgments from long ago
and find comfort.
53 Fury seizes me(C) because of the wicked
who reject your instruction.(D)
54 Your statutes are the theme of my song
during my earthly life.[a]
55 Lord, I remember your name(E) in the night,(F)
and I obey your instruction.
56 This is my practice:
I obey your precepts.(G)
16 “After I had given the purchase agreement to Baruch, son of Neriah, I prayed to the Lord:(A) 17 Oh, Lord God! You yourself made the heavens and earth(B) by your great power(C) and with your outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for you!(D) 18 You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ iniquity on their sons’ laps after them,(E) great and mighty God(F) whose name is the Lord of Armies, 19 the one great in counsel and powerful in action. Your eyes are on all the ways of the children of men[a] in order to reward each person according to his ways and as the result of his actions.(G) 20 You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt(H) and still do today, both in Israel and among all mankind. You made a name(I) for yourself, as is the case today. 21 You brought your people Israel out of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.(J) 22 You gave them this land you swore to give to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.(K) 23 They entered and possessed it, but they did not obey you or live according to your instructions.(L) They failed to perform all you commanded them to do,(M) and so you have brought all this disaster on them. 24 Look! Siege ramps(N) have come against the city to capture it, and the city, as a result of the sword, famine, and plague, has been handed over to the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you have spoken has happened. Look, you can see it! 25 Yet you, Lord God, have said to me, ‘Purchase the field and call in witnesses’—even though the city has been handed over to the Chaldeans!”
26 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 27 “Look, I am the Lord, the God over every creature.(O) Is anything too difficult for me?(P) 28 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the Chaldeans,(Q) to Babylon’s king Nebuchadnezzar, and he will capture it. 29 The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire. They will burn it, including the houses where incense has been burned to Baal on their rooftops and where drink offerings have been poured out to other gods to anger me.(R) 30 From their youth, the Israelites and Judeans have done nothing but what is evil in my sight! They have done nothing but anger me by the work of their hands”(S)—this is the Lord’s declaration— 31 “for this city has caused my wrath and fury from the day it was built until now. I will therefore remove it from my presence(T) 32 because of all the evil the Israelites and Judeans have done to anger me—they, their kings,(U) their officials, their priests, and their prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem. 33 They have turned their backs to me and not their faces.(V) Though I taught them time and time again,[b](W) they do not listen and receive discipline. 34 They have placed their abhorrent things(X) in the house that bears my name and have defiled it. 35 They have built the high places of Baal in Ben Hinnom Valley to sacrifice their sons and daughters in the fire[c] to Molech(Y)—something I had not commanded them. I had never entertained the thought[d] that they do this detestable act causing Judah to sin!
The Letter to Laodicea
14 “Write to the angel of the church in Laodicea: Thus says the Amen, (A) the faithful and true witness, the originator[a](B) of God’s creation: 15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit[b] you out of my mouth. 17 For you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’(C) and you don’t realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. 18 I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire so that you may be rich,(D) white clothes so that you may be dressed and your shameful nakedness not be exposed,(E) and ointment to spread on your eyes so that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline.(F) So be zealous and repent. 20 See! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.(G)
21 “To the one who conquers I will give the right to sit with me on my throne,(H) just as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
22 “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.”
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