Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴⁰ Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

⁴¹ And he gave them into the hand of the Gentiles, and those that hated them ruled over them.

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

⁴³ He delivered them many times, but they rebelled at his counsel and were brought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless he would look upon their affliction and hear their cry

⁴⁵ and remember his covenant with them and repent according to the multitude of his mercies.

⁴⁶ He also caused those that carried them captives to have mercy upon them.

⁴⁷ Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the Gentiles, that we might lift up thy holy name, that we might glory in thy praise.

⁴⁸ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting; and let all the people say, Amen. Halelu-JAH.

10 ¶ Hear ye the word which the LORD has spoken over you, O house of Israel:

² Thus hath the LORD said, Do not learn the way of the Gentiles, and do not fear the signs of heaven, even though the Gentiles fear them.

³ For the customs of the peoples are vanity: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

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

⁵ They compare them to the palm tree, and they do not speak: they must be carried, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither do they have power to do good.

⁶ Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

⁷ Who would not fear thee, O King of the Gentiles? for unto thee does it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the Gentiles and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.

⁸ But they shall become altogether carnal and foolish. The stock is a doctrine of vanities.

⁹ Silver spread into plates shall be brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, shall the workman work and the hands of the founder: they shall dress them in blue and purple: they are all the work of cunning men.

¹⁰ But the LORD God is the Truth, he himself is Living God and Everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the Gentiles shall not be able to abide his indignation.

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

¹² He that makes the earth by his power, he that orders the world with his wisdom and extends the heavens with his intelligence:

¹³ at his voice, there is given a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes the lightnings with the rain and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.

¹⁴ Every man is carnal in his knowledge: let every founder be ashamed of his graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no spirit in them.

¹⁵ They are vanity and the work of scorn: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁶ The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the Former of all things, and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of the hosts is his name.

¹⁹ ¶ Therefore, though I am free regarding everyone, yet I have made myself slave unto all, that I might gain the more.

²⁰ And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those that are under the law;

²¹ to those that are without law, as without law (being not without law of God, but under the law of Christ), that I might gain those that are without law.

²² To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak; I am made all things to everyone, that I might by all means save some.

²³ And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker together of it.