Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁴ Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform the good word that I have spoken to the house of Israel, and to the house of Juda.

¹⁵ In those days, and at that time, I will make the bud of justice to spring forth unto David, and he shall do judgment and justice in the earth.

¹⁶ In those days shall Juda be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely: and this is the name that they shall call him, The Lord our just one.

¹⁷ For thus saith the Lord: There shall not be cut off from David a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.

¹⁸ Neither shall there be cut off from the priests and Levites a man before my face to offer holocausts, and to burn sacrifices, and to kill victims continually:

¹⁹ And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:

²⁰ Thus saith the Lord: If my covenant with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season:

²¹ Also my covenant with David my servant may be made void, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites and priests my ministers.

²² As the stars of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites my ministers.

²³ And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying:

²⁴ Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised my people, so that it is no more a nation before them?

²⁵ Thus saith the Lord: If I have not set my covenant between day and night, and laws to heaven and earth:

²⁶ Surely I will also cast off the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so as not to take any of his seed to be rulers of the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will bring back their captivity, and will have mercy on them.

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother: to the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in all Achaia:

² Grace unto you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.

⁴ Who comforteth us in all our tribulation; that we also may be able to comfort them who are in all distress, by the exhortation wherewith we also are exhorted by God.

⁵ For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us: so also by Christ doth our comfort abound.

⁶ Now whether we be in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and salvation: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation: or whether we be exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which worketh the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

⁷ That our hope for you may be steadfast: knowing that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the consolation.

⁸ For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation, which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life.

⁹ But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.

¹⁰ Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out of so great dangers: in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us.

¹¹ You helping withal in prayer for us: that for this gift obtained for us, by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many in our behalf.