Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

66 Rejoice in God, all the Earth!

² Sing forth the Glory of His Name! Make His praise glorious!

³ Say to God, “How terrible are You in Your works! Through the greatness of Your power shall Your enemies be in subjection to You.

⁴ “All the world shall worship You and sing to You. Sing of Your Name!” Selah.

⁵ Come and behold the works of God. He is terrible in His doings toward the sons of men.

⁶ He has turned the sea into dry land. They passed through the river on foot. We rejoiced in Him there.

⁷ He rules the world with His power. His eyes behold the nations. The rebellious shall not exalt themselves. Selah.

⁸ Praise our God, you people, and make the voice of His praise heard.

⁹ He holds our souls in life and does not let our feet slip.

¹⁰ For You, O God, have tested us. You have refined us as silver is refined.

¹¹ You have brought us into the net. You put pressure upon our loins.

¹² You have caused men to ride over our heads. We went into fire and into water; but You brought us out into abundance.

25 The Word that came to Jeremiah, concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, which was in the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel.

² which Jeremiah the Prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

³ “From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day (that is, the twenty-third year), the Word of the LORD has come to me. And I have spoken it to you, rising early and speaking. But you would not hear.

⁴ “And the LORD has sent to you all His servants, the Prophets, rising early and sending them. But you would not hear or incline your ears to obey.

⁵ “They said, ‘Everyone turn back now from his evil way, and from the wickedness of your inventions, and you shall dwell in the land that the LORD has given you, and to your fathers, forever and ever.

⁶ ‘And do not go after other gods, to serve them and to worship them. And do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands, and I will not punish you.

⁷ Nevertheless, you would not hear Me,’ says the LORD, ‘but have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.’

⁸ “Therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My Words,

⁹ ‘behold, I will send and take all the families of the North,’ says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babel, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations all around and will destroy them and make them an astonishment and a hissing and a continual desolation.

¹⁰ ‘Moreover, I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the noise of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

¹¹ ‘And this whole land shall be desolate, and an astonishment. These nations shall serve the king of Babel for seventy years.

¹² ‘And when the seventy years are completed, I will reckon with the king of Babel and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquities,’ says the LORD, ‘and will make it a perpetual desolation.

¹³ ‘And I will bring upon that land all My Words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this Book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all nations.

¹⁴ ‘For many nations and great kings shall be served by them. Thus will I recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.’

¹³ Keep the true pattern of the wholesome words which you have heard from me in faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ Keep that worthy thing which was committed to you through the Holy Ghost, Who dwells in us.

¹⁵ This you know: that all those who are in Asia have turned from me. Of which are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus. For he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain.

¹⁷ But when he was at Rome, he sought me out very diligently and found me.

¹⁸ The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy with the Lord on that Day. And you know very well in how many things he has ministered to me at Ephesus.