“‘You will provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering daily to the Lord; morning by morning he will provide it.

While I was watching in my mind’s visions on my bed, a holy sentinel came down from heaven.

It came to the two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed against it with raging strength.

For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.

They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.

Ephraim will be struck down – their root will be dried up; they will not yield any fruit. Even if they do bear children, I will kill their precious offspring.

and they cast lots for my people. They traded a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.

Archers will not hold their ground; fast runners will not save their lives, nor will those who ride horses.

Those who devise sinful plans are as good as dead, those who dream about doing evil as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

You will be loyal to Jacob and extend your loyal love to Abraham, which you promised on oath to our ancestors in ancient times.

Then he cried out to me, “Look! The ones going to the northland have brought me peace about the northland.”

“Again, you have heard that it was said to an older generation, ‘Do not break an oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’

When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.

Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the bridegroom is with them, can they? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.

He asked him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live.”

Then a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came from the cloud, “This is my one dear Son. Listen to him!”

So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,