Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.

⁹ The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

¹⁷ Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunk even to the bottom of the cup of dead sleep, and thou hast drunk even to the dregs.

¹⁸ There is none that can uphold her among all the children that she hath brought forth: and there is none that taketh her by the hand among all the children that she hath brought up.

¹⁹ There are two things that have happened to thee: who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword, who shall comfort thee?

²⁰ Thy children are cast forth, they have slept at the head of all the ways, as the wild ox that is snared: full of the indignation of the Lord, of the rebuke of thy God.

²¹ Therefore hear this, thou poor little one, and thou that art drunk but no with wine.

²² Thus saith thy Sovereign the Lord and thy God, who will fight for his people: Behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of dead sleep, the dregs of the cup of my indignation, thou shalt not drink it again any more.

²³ And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed thee, and have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as a way to them that went over.

⁶ Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel:

⁷ Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children; but in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

⁸ That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh, are the children of God; but they, that are the children of the promise, are accounted for the seed.

⁹ For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I come; and Sara shall have a son.

¹⁰ And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once, of Isaac our father.

¹¹ For when the children were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil (that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand,)

¹² Not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said to her: The elder shall serve the younger.

¹³ As it is written: Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.