2Beth. The Lord has cast down headlong, and has not spared, all that was beautiful in Jacob: he has destroyed in his wrath the strong holds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them down to the ground: he has made the kingdom unclean, and the leaders thereof.

10Jod. The leaders of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

11Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the streets of the city.

12Lamed. They said to their mothers: Where is corn and wine? when they fainted away as the wounded in the streets of the city: when they breathed out their souls in the bosoms of their mothers.

13Mem. To what shall I compare you? or to what shall I liken you, OH daughter of Jerusalem? to what shall I equal you, that I may comfort you, OH virgin daughter of Sion? for great as the sea is your destruction: who shall heal you?

14Nun. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you: and they have not laid open your sin, to excite you to penance: but they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.

18Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls of the daughter of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give yourself no rest, and let not the apple of your eye cease.

19Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the beginning of the watches: pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands to him for the life of your little children, that have fainted for hunger at the top of all the streets.

3Lift up your hands against their pride to the end; see what things the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.

4And those who hate you have made their boasts, in the midst of your solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,

5and they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,

6they have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.

7They have set fire to your sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of your name on the earth.

20Have regard to your covenant: for those who are the obscure of the earth have been satisfied with dwellings of sin.

21Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise your name.

5And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him,

6And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, and is grieviously tormented.

7And Jesus says to him: I will come and heal him.

8And the centurion making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed.

9For I also am a man subject to authority, having under me soldiers; and I say to this, Go, and he goes, and to another, Come, and he comes, and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

10And Jesus hearing this, marvelled; and said to them that followed him: Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel.

11And I say to you that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven:

12But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

13And Jesus said to the centurion: Go, and as you have believed, so be it done to you. And the servant was healed at the same hour.

14And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying, and sick of a fever:

15And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose and ministered to them.

16And when evening was come, they brought to him many that were had with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word: and all that were sick he healed:

17That it might be fulfilled, which was said by the prophet Isaias, saying: He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.