Lamentations 1:1-14

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The Sorrows of Zion

1 How ^(A)lonely sits the city
That once had ^(B)many people!
She has become like a ^(C)widow
Who was once ^(D)great among the nations!
She who was a princess among the ^[a]provinces
Has become a ^(E)forced laborer!
²She ^(F)weeps bitterly in the night,
And her tears are on her cheeks;
She has no one to comfort her
Among all her ^(G)lovers.
All her friends have ^(H)dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.
³^(I)Judah has gone into exile out of affliction
And ^[b]harsh servitude;
She lives ^(J)among the nations,
But she has not found a resting place;
All those who ^(K)pursued her have overtaken her
In the midst of ^[c]distress.
⁴The roads ^[d]of Zion are in mourning
Because ^(L)no one comes to an appointed feast.
All her gates are ^(M)deserted;
Her priests groan,
Her ^(N)virgins are worried,
And as for Zion herself, it is ^(O)bitter for her.
⁵Her adversaries have become ^[e]her masters,
Her enemies are ^[f]secure;
For the Lord has ^[g]^(P)caused her grief
Because of the multitude of her wrongdoings;
Her little ones have gone away
As captives ^[h]led by the enemy.
⁶All of her ^(Q)splendor
Is gone from the daughter of Zion;
Her leaders have become like deer
That have found no pasture,
And they have ^[i]^(R)fled without strength
^[j]From the pursuer.
⁷In the days of her affliction and homelessness
^(S)Jerusalem remembers all her treasures
That were hers since the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the adversary
And ^(T)no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her,
They ^(U)laughed at her ^[k]ruin.
⁸Jerusalem sinned ^(V)greatly,
Therefore ^(W)she has become an ^[l]object of ridicule.
All who honored her despise her
Because they have seen her nakedness;
Even ^(X)she herself groans and turns away.
⁹Her ^(Y)uncleanness was in her garment’s seams;
She ^[m]did not think of her ^(Z)future.
So she has ^[n]^(AA)fallen in an astonishing way;
^(AB)She has no comforter.
“^(AC)See, Lord, my affliction,
For the enemy has ^[o]^(AD)honored himself!”
¹⁰The adversary has stretched out his hand
Over all her precious things,
For she has seen the ^(AE)nations enter her sanctuary,
The ones whom You commanded
That they were ^(AF)not to enter Your congregation.
¹¹All her people groan, ^(AG)seeking bread;
They have given their treasures for food
To ^(AH)restore their ^[p]lives.
“See, Lord, and look,
For I am ^(AI)despised.”
¹²“Is it ^(AJ)nothing to all you who pass this way?
Look and see if there is any pain like my pain
Which was inflicted on me,
With which the ^(AK)Lord tormented me on the day of His ^(AL)fierce anger.
¹³From ^[q]the height He sent fire into my ^(AM)bones,
And it dominated them.
He has spread a ^(AN)net for my feet;
He has turned me back;
He has made me ^(AO)desolate,
^[r]Faint all day long.
¹⁴The ^(AP)yoke of my wrongdoings is bound;
By His hand they are woven together.
They have ^(AQ)come upon my neck;
He has made my strength ^[s]fail.
The Lord ^(AR)has handed me over
To those against whom I am not able to stand.

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Footnotes

Lamentations 1:1 Or districts
Lamentations 1:3 Lit great
Lamentations 1:3 Or narrow places
Lamentations 1:4 Or to
Lamentations 1:5 Lit head
Lamentations 1:5 Or at ease
Lamentations 1:5 Or tormented her
Lamentations 1:5 Lit before
Lamentations 1:6 Lit gone
Lamentations 1:6 Lit Before
Lamentations 1:7 Lit cessation
Lamentations 1:8 Or abomination
Lamentations 1:9 Or remember her final end
Lamentations 1:9 Lit gone down
Lamentations 1:9 Or boasted
Lamentations 1:11 Lit soul
Lamentations 1:13 I.e., heaven
Lamentations 1:13 Or Sick
Lamentations 1:14 Lit falter

John 17

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The High Priestly Prayer

17 Jesus spoke these things; and ^(A)raising His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; ^(B)glorify Your Son, so that the Son may glorify You, ²just as ^(C)You gave Him authority over all ^[a]mankind, so that ^[b]^(D)to all whom You have given Him, ^(E)He may give eternal life. ³And this is eternal life, that they may know You, ^(F)the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom ^(G)You have sent. ⁴^(H)I glorified You on the earth ^[c]^(I)by accomplishing the work which You have given Me to do. ⁵And now You, Father, ^(J)glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had ^(K)with You before the world existed.

⁶“^(L)I have revealed Your name to the men whom ^(M)You gave Me out of the world; they were ^(N)Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have ^(O)followed Your word. ⁷Now they have come to know that everything which You have given Me is from You; ⁸for ^(P)the words which You gave Me ^(Q)I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that ^(R)I came forth from You, and they believed that ^(S)You sent Me. ⁹^(T)I ask on their behalf; ^(U)I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on the behalf of those whom ^(V)You have given Me, because ^(W)they are Yours; ¹⁰and ^(X)all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. ¹¹I am no longer going to be in the world; and yet ^(Y)they themselves are in the world, and ^(Z)I am coming to You. ^(AA)Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name ^(AB)which You have given Me, so that ^(AC)they may be one just as We are. ¹²While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name, ^(AD)which You have given Me; and I guarded them, and ^(AE)not one of them perished except ^(AF)the ^[d]son of destruction, so that the ^(AG)Scripture would be fulfilled.

The Disciples in the World

¹³But now ^(AH)I am coming to You; and ^(AI)these things I speak in the world so that they may have My ^(AJ)joy made full in themselves. ¹⁴I have given them Your word; and ^(AK)the world has hated them because ^(AL)they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵I am not asking You to take them out of the world, but to keep them away from ^[e]^(AM)the evil one. ¹⁶^(AN)They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁷^(AO)Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. ¹⁸Just as ^(AP)You sent Me into the world, ^(AQ)I also sent them into the world. ¹⁹And for their sakes I ^(AR)sanctify Myself, so that they themselves also may be ^(AS)sanctified ^(AT)in truth.

²⁰“I am not asking on behalf of these alone, but also for those who believe in Me through their word, ²¹that they may all be one; ^(AU)just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, ^(AV)so that the world may ^[f]believe that ^(AW)You sent Me.

Disciples’ Future Glory

²²The ^(AX)glory which You have given Me I also have given to them, so that they may be one, just as We are one; ²³^(AY)I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected ^[g]in unity, so that the world may ^[h]know that ^(AZ)You sent Me, and You ^(BA)loved them, just as You loved Me. ²⁴Father, I desire that ^(BB)they also, whom You have given Me, ^(BC)be with Me where I am, so that they may see My ^(BD)glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before ^(BE)the foundation of the world.

²⁵“^(BF)Righteous Father, ^[i]although ^(BG)the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that ^(BH)You sent Me; ²⁶and ^(BI)I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that ^(BJ)the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”

Footnotes

John 17:2 Lit flesh
John 17:2 Lit everything that You have given Him, to them He may
John 17:4 Or having accomplished
John 17:12 Heb idiom for one destined to perish
John 17:15 Or evil
John 17:21 Gr tense indicates continually believe
John 17:23 Lit into one
John 17:23 Gr tense indicates continually know
John 17:25 Lit even the world

Lamentations 3:1-33

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Jeremiah Shares Israel’s Misery

3 I am the man who has ^(A)seen misery
Because of the rod of His wrath.
²He has driven me and made me walk
In ^(B)darkness and not in light.
³Indeed, He has ^(C)turned His hand against me
Repeatedly all the day.
⁴He has consumed my ^(D)flesh and my skin,
He has ^(E)broken my bones.
⁵He has ^[a]^(F)besieged and surrounded me with ^[b]^(G)bitterness and hardship.
⁶He has made me live in ^(H)dark places,
Like those who have long been dead.
⁷He has ^(I)walled me in so that I cannot go out;
He has made my ^[c]^(J)chain heavy.
⁸Even when I cry out and call for help,
He ^(K)shuts out my prayer.
⁹He has ^(L)blocked my ways with cut stone;
He has twisted my paths.
¹⁰He is to me like a bear lying in wait,
Like a lion in secret places.
¹¹He has made my ways deviate, and ^(M)torn me to pieces;
He has made me desolate.
¹²He ^(N)bent His bow
And ^(O)took aim at me as a target for the arrow.
¹³He made the ^[d]arrows of His ^(P)quiver
Enter my ^[e]inward parts.
¹⁴I have become a ^(Q)laughingstock to all my people,
Their ^(R)song of ridicule all the day.
¹⁵He has ^(S)filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drink plenty of wormwood.
¹⁶He has also ^(T)made my teeth grind with ^(U)gravel;
He has made me cower in the ^(V)dust.
¹⁷My soul has been excluded ^(W)from peace;
I have forgotten ^[f]happiness.
¹⁸So I say, “My ^[g]strength has failed,
And so has my ^(X)hope from the Lord.”

Hope of Relief in God’s Mercy

¹⁹Remember my misery and my homelessness, the ^(Y)wormwood and ^[h]bitterness.
²⁰^(Z)My soul certainly remembers,
And ^[i]is ^(AA)bent over within me.
²¹I recall this to my mind,
Therefore I ^[j]^(AB)wait.
²²^[k]The Lord’s ^(AC)acts of mercy indeed do not end,
^(AD)For His compassions do not fail.
²³They are new ^(AE)every morning;
Great is ^(AF)Your faithfulness.
²⁴“The Lord is my ^(AG)portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I ^[l]^(AH)wait for Him.”
²⁵The Lord is good to those who ^[m]^(AI)await Him,
To the ^[n]person who ^(AJ)seeks Him.
²⁶It is good that he ^(AK)waits silently
For the salvation of the Lord.
²⁷It is good for a man to bear
The yoke in his youth.
²⁸Let him ^(AL)sit alone and keep quiet,
Since He has laid it on him.
²⁹Let him ^[o]put his mouth in the ^(AM)dust;
Perhaps there is ^(AN)hope.
³⁰Let him give his ^(AO)cheek to the one who is going to strike him;
Let him be filled with shame.
³¹For the Lord will ^(AP)not reject forever,
³²For if He causes grief,
Then He will have ^(AQ)compassion
In proportion to His abundant mercy.
³³For He ^(AR)does not ^[p]afflict ^[q]willingly
Or ^[r]grieve the sons of mankind.

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Footnotes

Lamentations 3:5 Lit built against
Lamentations 3:5 Lit poison
Lamentations 3:7 Lit bronze piece
Lamentations 3:13 Lit sons
Lamentations 3:13 Lit kidneys
Lamentations 3:17 Lit good
Lamentations 3:18 Or splendor
Lamentations 3:19 Lit poison
Lamentations 3:20 Or bows down
Lamentations 3:21 Lit have hope
Lamentations 3:22 As in ancient versions; MT It is...mercy that we do not end
Lamentations 3:24 Or hope in
Lamentations 3:25 Or hope in
Lamentations 3:25 Lit soul
Lamentations 3:29 Lit give
Lamentations 3:33 Or oppress
Lamentations 3:33 Lit from His heart
Lamentations 3:33 Or torment

John 13:1-35

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The Lord’s Supper

13 Now before the Feast of ^(A)the Passover, Jesus, knowing that ^(B)His hour had come that He would depart from this world ^(C)to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them ^[a]to the end. ²And during supper, ^(D)the devil having already put into the heart of ^(E)Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, ³Jesus, ^(F)knowing that the Father had handed all things over to Him, and that ^(G)He had come forth from God and was going back to God, ⁴*got up from supper and *laid His outer garments aside; and He took a towel and ^(H)tied it around Himself.

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

⁵Then He *poured water into the basin, and began ^(I)washing the disciples’ feet and wiping them with the towel which He had tied around Himself. ⁶So He *came to Simon Peter. He *said to Him, “Lord, You are washing my feet?” ⁷Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing, you do not realize right now, but you will understand ^(J)later.” ⁸Peter *said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “^(K)If I do not wash you, ^(L)you have no ^[b]place with Me.” ⁹Simon Peter *said to Him, “Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!” ¹⁰Jesus *said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet; otherwise he is completely clean. And ^(M)you are clean—but ^[c]not all of you.” ¹¹For ^(N)He knew the one who was betraying Him; it was for this reason that He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

¹²Then, when He had washed their feet, and ^(O)taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you? ¹³You call Me ^(P)‘Teacher’ and ^(Q)‘Lord’; and ^[d]you are correct, for so I am. ¹⁴So if I, ^(R)the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵For I gave you ^(S)an example, so that you also would do just as I did for you. ¹⁶Truly, truly I say to you, ^(T)a slave is not greater than his master, nor is ^(U)^[e]one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷If you know these things, you are ^(V)blessed if you do them. ¹⁸^(W)I am not speaking about all of you. I know the ones whom I have ^(X)chosen; but this is happening ^(Y)so that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘^(Z)He who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’ ¹⁹From now on ^(AA)I am telling you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe that ^(AB)I am He. ²⁰Truly, truly I say to you, ^(AC)the one who ^[f]receives anyone I send, ^[g]receives Me; and the one who ^[h]receives Me ^[i]receives Him who sent Me.”

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

²¹When Jesus had said these things, He ^(AD)became troubled in spirit, and ^[j]testified and said, “Truly, truly I say to you that ^(AE)one of you will ^[k]betray Me.” ²²The disciples began looking at one another, ^(AF)at a loss to know of which one He was speaking. ²³Lying back on ^(AG)Jesus’ chest was one of His disciples, ^(AH)whom Jesus loved. ²⁴So Simon Peter *nodded to this disciple and *said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking.” ²⁵He then simply ^(AI)leaned back on Jesus’ chest and *said to Him, “Lord, who is it?” ²⁶Jesus then *answered, “That man is the one for whom I shall dip the piece of bread and give it to him.” So when He had dipped the piece of bread, He *took and *gave it to Judas, ^(AJ)the son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷After ^[l]this, ^(AK)Satan then ^(AL)entered him. Therefore Jesus *said to him, “What you are doing, do it quickly.” ²⁸Now none of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him. ²⁹For some were assuming, since Judas ^(AM)kept the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we need ^(AN)for the feast”; or else, that he was to ^[m]^(AO)give something to the poor. ³⁰So after receiving the piece of bread, he left immediately; and ^(AP)it was night.

³¹Therefore when he had left, Jesus *said, “Now ^[n]is ^(AQ)the Son of Man ^(AR)glorified, and ^(AS)God ^[o]is glorified in Him; ³²^[p]if God is glorified in Him, ^(AT)God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately. ³³^(AU)Little children, I am still with you ^(AV)a little longer. ^(AW)You will look for Me; and just as I said to the ^[q]Jews, now I also say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ ³⁴I am giving you a ^(AX)new commandment, ^(AY)that you love one another; ^(AZ)just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ³⁵^(BA)By this all people will know that you are My disciples: if you have love for one another.”