On the poplars in her midst we hang our harps,

Praise him, O sun and moon! Praise him, all you shiny stars!

because you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke,

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.

Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with abundant advisers they are established.

A perverse person spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends.

Beatings and wounds cleanse away evil, and floggings cleanse the innermost being.

locusts have no king, but they all go forward by ranks;

Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit; no place is untouched.

Zephaniah the priest read that letter to the prophet Jeremiah.

Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the Lord’s heaven.

Then four large beasts came up from the sea; they were different from one another.

The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.

The Lord my God says this: “Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.

He called a child, had him stand among them,

Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years.

As all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples,

Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead?

You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.