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.
36 “And now, therefore, thus has the LORD God of Israel spoken concerning this city, of which you say, ‘It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babel by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.’
37 “Behold, I will gather them out of all countries to which I have scattered them in My anger, and in My wrath, and in great indignation. And I will bring them back to this place. And I will cause them to dwell safely.
38 “And they shall be My people, and I will be their God.
39 “And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and of their children after them.
40 “And I will make an everlasting Covenant with them: that I will never turn away from them to do them good. But I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they shall not depart from Me.
41 “Yea, I will delight in them, to do them good. And I will assuredly plant them in this land with My whole Heart, and with all My Soul.
42 “For thus says the LORD: ‘Just as I have brought all this great plague upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
43 “And the fields shall be possessed in this land of which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or beast, and shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’
44 “Men shall buy fields for silver, and make writings and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and all around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the South. For I will cause their captivity to return,’ says the LORD.”
5 Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupt, and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and silver are corroded. And the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped up treasure for the last days.
4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your fields cry out (those which are fraudulently withheld by you). And the cries of those reapers are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
5 You have lived in pleasure on the Earth and been riotous. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 You have condemned and have killed the just. And he has not resisted you.
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