Amos ¹  said: “The Lord comes roaring ²  out of Zion; from Jerusalem ³  he comes bellowing! ⁴  The shepherds’ pastures wilt; ⁵  the summit of Carmel ⁶  withers.” ⁷ 

“When an unclean spirit ¹  goes out of a person, ²  it passes through waterless places ³  looking for rest but ⁴  not finding any. Then ⁵  it says, ‘I will return to the home I left.’ ⁶ 

and sent out a raven; it kept flying ¹  back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.

The jar of flour was never empty and the jug of oil never ran out, just as the Lord had promised ¹  through Elijah.

I am exhausted from shouting for help; my throat is sore; ¹  my eyes grow tired of looking for my God. ² 

I dug wells and drank water. ¹  With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

The grains of seed ¹  have shriveled beneath their shovels. ²  Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil ¹  and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) ² 

When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared.

When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.

The entire lifetime of Jared was 962 years, and then he died.

They said, “My lord, we did indeed come down ¹  the first time ²  to buy food.

So the people spread out ¹  through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation? ¹ 

Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning ¹  rushes.

It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

Arrows ¹  do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.

O my God, make them like dead thistles, ¹  like dead weeds blown away by ²  the wind!

My days are coming to an end, ¹  and I am withered like grass.

His house contains wealth and riches; his integrity endures. ¹