Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁶⁸ “Blessed^(A) is the Lord God of Israel,
For ^(B)He has visited and redeemed His people,
^69 (C)And has raised up a horn of salvation for us
In the house of His servant David,
^70 (D)As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets,
Who have been ^(E)since the world began,
⁷¹ That we should be saved from our enemies
And from the hand of all who hate us,
^72 (F)To perform the mercy promised to our fathers
And to remember His holy covenant,
^73 (G)The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
⁷⁴ To grant us that we,
Being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
Might ^(H)serve Him without fear,
^75 (I)In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

⁷⁶ “And you, child, will be called the ^(J)prophet of the Highest;
For ^(K)you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,
⁷⁷ To give ^(L)knowledge of salvation to His people
By the remission of their sins,
⁷⁸ Through the tender mercy of our God,
With which the ^[a]Dayspring from on high ^[b]has visited us;
^79 (M)To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death,
To ^(N)guide our feet into the way of peace.”

^(A)“They shall not lament for him,
Saying, ^(B)‘Alas, my brother!’ or ‘Alas, my sister!’
They shall not lament for him,
Saying, ‘Alas, master!’ or ‘Alas, his glory!’
^19 (C)He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey,
Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

²⁰ “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
And lift up your voice in Bashan;
Cry from Abarim,
For all your lovers are destroyed.
²¹ I spoke to you in your prosperity,
But you said, ‘I will not hear.’
^(D)This has been your manner from your youth,
That you did not obey My voice.
²² The wind shall eat up all ^(E)your ^[a]rulers,
And your lovers shall go into captivity;
Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated
For all your wickedness.
²³ O inhabitant of Lebanon,
Making your nest in the cedars,
How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you,
Like ^(F)the pain of a woman in ^[b]labor?

²⁸ “Is this man ^[f]Coniah a despised, broken idol—
^(K)A vessel in which is no pleasure?
Why are they cast out, he and his descendants,
And cast into a land which they do not know?
^29 (L)O earth, earth, earth,
Hear the word of the Lord!
³⁰ Thus says the Lord:
‘Write this man down as ^(M)childless,
A man who shall not prosper in his days;
For ^(N)none of his descendants shall prosper,
Sitting on the throne of David,
And ruling anymore in Judah.’ ”