13Priests, gird yourselves and lament. Ministers of the altars, wail. Enter, ministers of my God, lie in sackcloth. For sacrifice and libation have passed away from the house of your God. 14Sanctify a fast, call an assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God. And cry out to the Lord: 15“Ah, ah, ah, the day!” For the day of the Lord is near, and it will arrive, like a devastation, before the powerful.
2I will confess to you, Lord, with my whole heart. I will recount all your wonders. 3I will rejoice and exult in you. I will sing a psalm to your name, O Most High. 4For my enemy will be turned back. They will be weakened and perish before your face. 5For you have accomplished my judgment and my cause. You have sat upon the throne that judges justice. 6You have rebuked the Gentiles, and the impious one has perished. You have deleted their name in eternity and for all generations. 7The spears of the enemy have failed in the end, and their cities, you have destroyed. Their memory has perished with a loud noise. 8But the Lord remains in eternity. He has prepared his throne in judgment. 9And he will judge the whole world in equity. He will judge the people in justice.
15But some of them said, “It is by Beelzebub, the leader of demons, that he casts out demons.” 16And others, testing him, required a sign from heaven of him. 17But when he perceived their thoughts, he said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself will become desolate, and house will fall upon house. 18So then, if Satan is also divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that it is by Beelzebub that I cast out demons. 19But if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your own sons cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges. 20Moreover, if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then certainly the kingdom of God has overtaken you. 21When a strong armed man guards his entrance, the things that he possesses are at peace. 22But if a stronger one, overwhelming him, has defeated him, he will take away all his weapons, in which he trusted, and he will distribute his spoils. 23Whoever is not with me, is against me. And whoever does not gather with me, scatters. 24When an unclean spirit has departed from a man, he walks through waterless places, seeking rest. And not finding any, he says: ‘I will return to my house, from which I departed.’ 25And when he has arrived, he finds it swept clean and decorated. 26Then he goes, and he takes in seven other spirits with him, more wicked than himself, and they enter and live there. And so, the end of that man is made worse than the beginning.”