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.

⁷ Zain. Jerusalem hath remembered the days of her affliction, and prevarication of all her desirable things which she had from the days of old, when her people fell in the enemy's hand, and there was no helper: the enemies have seen her, and have mocked at her sabbaths.

⁸ Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become unstable: all that honoured her have despised her, because they have seen her shame: but she sighed and turned backward.

⁹ Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet, and she hath not remembered her end: she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter: behold, O Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up.

¹⁰ Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand to all her desirable things: for she hath seen the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, of whom thou gavest commandment that they should not enter into thy church.

¹¹ Caph. All her people sigh, they seek bread: they have given all their precious things for food to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider, for I am become vile.

¹² Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as the Lord spoke in the day of his fierce anger.

¹³ Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long.

¹⁴ Nun. The yoke of my iniquities hath watched: they are folded together in his hand, and put upon my neck: my strength is weakened: the Lord hath delivered me into a hand out of which I am not able to rise.

¹⁵ Samech. The Lord hath taken away all my mighty men out of the midst of me: he hath called against me the time, to destroy my chosen men: the Lord hath trodden the winepress for the virgin daughter of Juda.

²⁹ And when they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

³⁰ And behold two blind men sitting by the way side, heard that Jesus passed by, and they cried out, saying: O Lord, thou son of David, have mercy on us.

³¹ And the multitude rebuked them that they should hold their peace. But they cried out the more, saying: O Lord, thou son of David, have mercy on us.

³² And Jesus stood, and called them, and said: What will ye that I do to you?

³³ They say to him: Lord, that our eyes be opened.

³⁴ And Jesus having compassion on them, touched their eyes. And immediately they saw, and followed him.