Psalm 20

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Trust in the Name of the Lord Our God

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

20 May the Lord ^(A)answer you in the day of trouble!
    May ^(B)the name of the God of Jacob ^(C)protect you!
²May he send you help from ^(D)the sanctuary
    and give you support from ^(E)Zion!
³May he ^(F)remember all your offerings
    and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah

⁴May he ^(G)grant you your heart's desire
and fulfill all your plans!
⁵May we shout for joy over ^(H)your salvation,
and in the name of our God set up our ^(I)banners!
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!

⁶Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed;
    he will answer him from his holy heaven
    with ^(J)the saving might of his right hand.
⁷Some trust in ^(K)chariots and some in ^(L)horses,
    ^(M)but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
⁸They collapse and fall,
    but we rise and stand upright.

⁹O Lord, save ^(N)the king!
May he answer us when we call.

Jeremiah 31:15-22

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¹⁵Thus says the Lord:
^(A)“A voice is heard in ^(B)Ramah,
    lamentation and bitter weeping.
^(C)Rachel is weeping for her children;
    she refuses to be comforted for her children,
    ^(D)because they are no more.”

¹⁶Thus says the Lord:
“Keep your voice from weeping,
    and your eyes from tears,
for there is a reward for your work,
declares the Lord,
    and ^(E)they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
¹⁷^(F)There is hope for your future,
declares the Lord,
    and your children shall come back to their own country.
¹⁸I have heard ^(G)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
    like an untrained calf;
^(H)bring me back that I may be restored,
    for you are the Lord my God.
¹⁹For after ^(I)I had turned away, I relented,
    and after I was instructed, ^(J)I struck my thigh;
^(K)I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
    because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
²⁰^(L)Is Ephraim my dear son?
    ^(M)Is he my darling child?
For as often as I speak against him,
    I do remember him still.
^(N)Therefore my heart^[a] yearns for him;
    I will surely have mercy on him,
declares the Lord.

²¹^(O)“Set up road markers for yourself;
    make yourself guideposts;
^(P)consider well the highway,
    ^(Q)the road by which you went.
Return, O virgin Israel,
    return to these your cities.
²²^(R)How long will you waver,
    ^(S)O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
    a woman encircles a man.”

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 31:20 Hebrew bowels

Luke 19:41-44

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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem

⁴¹^(A)And when he drew near and saw the city, ^(B)he wept over it, ⁴²saying, ^(C)“Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now ^(D)they are hidden from your eyes. ⁴³For ^(E)the days will come upon you, when your enemies ^(F)will set up a barricade around you and ^(G)surround you and hem you in on every side ⁴⁴^(H)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And ^(I)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know ^(J)the time of your ^(K)visitation.”