Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴⁰ Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;

⁴¹ And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:

⁴² And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁴³ Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked [him] by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.

⁴⁴ But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;

⁴⁵ And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;

⁴⁶ And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.

⁴⁷ Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, [and] to triumph in thy praise.

⁴⁸ Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!

10 Hear the word that Jehovah speaketh unto you, house of Israel.

² Thus saith Jehovah: Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.

³ For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;

⁴ they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

⁵ They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

⁶ There is none like unto thee, Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

⁷ Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee doth it appertain; for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.

⁸ But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.

⁹ Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful [men].

¹⁰ But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation.

¹¹ Thus shall ye say unto them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

¹² He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

¹³ When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.

¹⁴ Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁵ They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁶ The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all [things], and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

¹⁹ For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most [possible].

²⁰ And I became to the Jews as a Jew, in order that I might gain the Jews: to those under law, as under law, not being myself under law, in order that I might gain those under law:

²¹ to those without law, as without law, (not as without law to God, but as legitimately subject to Christ,) in order that I might gain [those] without law.

²² I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.

²³ And I do all things for the sake of the glad tidings, that I may be fellow-partaker with them.