Psalm 119:81-88

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כ Kaph

⁸¹My soul faints^(A) with longing for your salvation,^(B)
    but I have put my hope^(C) in your word.
⁸²My eyes fail,^(D) looking for your promise;^(E)
    I say, “When will you comfort me?”
⁸³Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke,
    I do not forget^(F) your decrees.
⁸⁴How long^(G) must your servant wait?
    When will you punish my persecutors?^(H)
⁸⁵The arrogant^(I) dig pits^(J) to trap me,
    contrary to your law.
⁸⁶All your commands are trustworthy;^(K)
    help me,^(L) for I am being persecuted^(M) without cause.^(N)
⁸⁷They almost wiped me from the earth,
    but I have not forsaken^(O) your precepts.
⁸⁸In your unfailing love^(P) preserve my life,^(Q)
    that I may obey the statutes^(R) of your mouth.

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Jeremiah 16:14-21

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¹⁴“However, the days are coming,”^(A) declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’^(B) ¹⁵but it will be said, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north^(C) and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’^(D) For I will restore^(E) them to the land I gave their ancestors.^(F)

¹⁶“But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them.^(G) After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt^(H) them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.^(I) ¹⁷My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden^(J) from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes.^(K) ¹⁸I will repay^(L) them double^(M) for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land^(N) with the lifeless forms of their vile images^(O) and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.^(P)”^(Q)

¹⁹Lord, my strength and my fortress,
    my refuge^(R) in time of distress,
to you the nations will come^(S)
    from the ends of the earth and say,
“Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods,^(T)
    worthless idols^(U) that did them no good.^(V)
²⁰Do people make their own gods?
    Yes, but they are not gods!”^(W)

²¹“Therefore I will teach them—
    this time I will teach them
    my power and might.
Then they will know
    that my name^(X) is the Lord.

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John 7:1-9

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Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles

7 After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want^[a] to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders^(A) there were looking for a way to kill him.^(B) ²But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles^(C) was near, ³Jesus’ brothers^(D) said to him, “Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. ⁴No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” ⁵For even his own brothers did not believe in him.^(E)

⁶Therefore Jesus told them, “My time^(F) is not yet here; for you any time will do. ⁷The world cannot hate you, but it hates me^(G) because I testify that its works are evil.^(H) ⁸You go to the festival. I am not^[b] going up to this festival, because my time^(I) has not yet fully come.” ⁹After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee.