Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁹ Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.

²⁰ Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.

²¹ Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.

²² Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

²³ Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.

²⁴ Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

²⁵ Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

²⁶ Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

52 Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.

² And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Joakim had done.

³ For the wrath of the Lord was against Jerusalem, and against Juda, till he cast them out from his presence: and Sedecias revolted from the king of Babylon.

⁴ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it, and built forts against it round about.

⁵ And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Sedecias.

⁶ And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land.

⁷ And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and went out of the city in the night by the way of the gate that is between the two walls, and leadeth to the king's garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the city round about,) sad they went by the way that leadeth to the wilderness.

⁸ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king: and they overtook Sedecias in the desert which is near Jericho: and all his companions were scattered from him.

⁹ And when they had taken the king, they carried him to the king of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.

¹⁰ And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Sedecias before his eyes: and he slew all the princes of Juda in Reblatha.

¹¹ And he put out the eyes of Sedecias, and bound him with fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him into Babylon, and he put him in prison till the day of his death.

⁸ And to the angel of the church of Smyrna write: These things saith the First and the Last, who was dead, and is alive:

⁹ I know thy tribulation and thy poverty, but thou art rich: and thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

¹⁰ Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful until death: and I will give thee the crown of life.

¹¹ He, that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches: He that shall overcome, shall not be hurt by the second death.