Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

2 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?

² The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord and against his Christ.

³ Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us.

⁴ He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride them.

⁵ Then shall he speak to them in his anger, and trouble them in his rage.

⁶ But I am appointed king by him over Sion his holy mountain, preaching his commandment.

⁷ The Lord hath said to me: Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.

⁸ Ask of me, and I will give thee the Gentiles for thy inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession.

⁹ Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

¹⁰ And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, you that judge the earth.

¹¹ Serve ye the Lord with fear: and rejoice unto him with trembling.

¹² Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way.

¹³ When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him.

²⁰ And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said: I have found thee, because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the Lord.

²¹ Behold I will bring evil upon thee, and I will cut down thy posterity, and I will kill of Achab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel.

²² And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahias: for what thou hast done, to provoke me to anger, and for making Israel to sin.

²³ And of Jezabel also the Lord spoke, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel.

²⁴ If Achab die in the city, the dogs shall eat him: but if he die in the field, the birds of the air shall eat him.

²⁵ Now there was not such another as Achab, who was sold to do evil in the sight of the Lord: for his wife Jezabel set him on,

²⁶ And he became abominable, insomuch that he followed the idols which the Amorrhites had made, whom the Lord destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

²⁷ And when Achab had heard these words, he rent his garments, and put haircloth upon his flesh, and fasted and slept in sackcloth, and walked with his head cast down.

²⁸ And the word of the Lord came to Elias the Thesbite, saying:

²⁹ Hast thou not seen Achab humbled before me? therefore, because he hath humbled himself for my sake, I will not bring the evil in his days, but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.

⁹ And they kept the word to themselves; questioning together what that should mean, when he shall be risen from the dead.

¹⁰ And they asked him, saying: Why then do the Pharisees and scribes say that Elias must come first?

¹¹ Who answering, said to them: Elias, when he shall come first, shall restore all things; and as it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things and be despised.

¹² But I say to you, that Elias also is come, (and they have done to him whatsoever they would,) as it is written of him.

¹³ And coming to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes disputing with them.