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!

¹⁷ Gather up thy baggage out of the land, O inhabitress of the fortress.

¹⁸ For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will this time sling out the inhabitants of the land, and will distress them, that they may be found.

¹⁹ Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is [my] grief, and I will bear it.

²⁰ My tent is despoiled, and all my cords are broken; my children are gone forth from me, and they are not; there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

²¹ For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not sought Jehovah; therefore have they not acted wisely, and all their flock is scattered.

²² The voice of a rumour! Behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.

²³ I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.

²⁴ Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

²⁵ Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him, and have laid waste his dwelling-place.

⁴⁵ And, as all the people were listening, he said to his disciples,

⁴⁶ Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and who love salutations in the market-places, and first seats in the synagogues, and first places at suppers;

⁴⁷ who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.

21 And he looked up and saw the rich casting their gifts into the treasury;

² but he saw also a certain poor widow casting therein two mites.

³ And he said, Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all;

⁴ for all these out of their abundance have cast into the gifts [of God]; but she out of her need has cast in all the living which she had.