Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

29 And these [are] words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the remnant of the elders of the removal, and unto the priests, and unto the prophets, and unto all the people -- whom Nebuchadnezzar removed from Jerusalem to Babylon,

⁴ `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, to all the removal that I removed from Jerusalem to Babylon,

⁵ Build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit;

⁶ Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take for your sons wives, and your daughters give to husbands, and they bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and ye are not few;

⁷ And seek the peace of the city whither I have removed you, and pray for it unto Jehovah, for in its peace ye have peace.

66 To the Overseer. -- A Song, a Psalm. Shout ye to God, all the earth.

² Praise ye the honour of His name, Make ye honourable His praise.

³ Say to God, `How fearful [are] Thy works, By the abundance of Thy strength, Thine enemies feign obedience to Thee.

⁴ All the earth do bow to Thee, They sing praise to Thee, they praise Thy name.' Selah.

⁵ Come ye, and see the works of God, Fearful acts toward the sons of men.

⁶ He hath turned a sea to dry land, Through a river they pass over on foot, There do we rejoice in Him.

⁷ Ruling by His might to the age, His eyes among the nations do watch, The refractory exalt not themselves. Selah.

⁸ Bless, ye peoples, our God, And sound the voice of His praise,

⁹ Who hath placed our soul in life, And suffered not our feet to be moved.

¹⁰ For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.

¹¹ Thou hast brought us into a net, Thou hast placed pressure on our loins.

¹² Thou hast caused man to ride at our head. We have entered into fire and into water, And Thou bringest us out to a watered place.

⁸ Remember Jesus Christ, raised out of the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news,

⁹ in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

¹⁰ because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that [is] in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.

¹¹ Stedfast [is] the word: For if we died together -- we also shall live together;

¹² if we do endure together -- we shall also reign together; if we deny [him], he also shall deny us;

¹³ if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

¹⁴ These things remind [them] of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

¹⁵ be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

¹¹ And it came to pass, in his going on to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee,

¹² and he entering into a certain village, there met him ten leprous men, who stood afar off,

¹³ and they lifted up the voice, saying, `Jesus, master, deal kindly with us;'

¹⁴ and having seen [them], he said to them, `Having gone on, shew yourselves to the priests;' and it came to pass, in their going, they were cleansed,

¹⁵ and one of them having seen that he was healed did turn back, with a loud voice glorifying God,

¹⁶ and he fell upon [his] face at his feet, giving thanks to him, and he was a Samaritan.

¹⁷ And Jesus answering said, `Were not the ten cleansed, and the nine -- where?

¹⁸ There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;'

¹⁹ and he said to him, `Having risen, be going on, thy faith hath saved thee.'