Readings for Lent and Easter

⁷ “Look, the days are coming”^(A)—the Lord’s declaration—“when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives^(B) who brought the Israelites from the land of Egypt,’ ⁸ but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other countries where I^[a] had banished them.’ They will dwell once more in their own land.”^(C)