Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

125 When the lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.

² Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with joy. Then shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great things for them.

³ The Lord hath done great things for us: we are become joyful.

⁴ Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south.

⁵ They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

⁶ Going they went and wept, casting their seeds.

⁷ But coming they shall come with joyfulness, carrying their sheaves.

¹⁶ Then they that feared the Lord spoke every one with his neighbour: and the Lord gave ear, and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the Lord, and think on his name.

¹⁷ And they shall be my special possession, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day that I do judgment: and I will spare them, as a man spareth his son that serveth him.

¹⁸ And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

4 For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.

² But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, and health in his wings: and you shall go forth, and shall leap like calves of the herd.

³ And you shall tread down the wicked when they shall be ashes under the sole of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts.

⁴ Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, the precepts, and judgments.

⁵ Behold I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

⁶ And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers: lest I come, and strike the earth with anathema.

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.