Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Cheth

⁸ The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and of great mercy.

Teth

⁹ The LORD is good to all; and his tender mercies shine over all his works.

Samech

¹⁴ The LORD upholds all that fall and raises up all those that are oppressed.

Ain

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their food in due season.

Pe

¹⁶ Thou dost open thine hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Tzaddi

¹⁷ The LORD is righteous in all his ways and merciful in all his works.

Koph

¹⁸ The LORD is near unto all those that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

Resh

¹⁹ He will fulfil the desire of those that fear him; he also will hear their cry and will save them.

Schin

²⁰ The LORD preserves all those that love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Tau

²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD, and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

¹⁷ ¶ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out.

¹⁸ There is no one to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither is there any that takes her by the hand of all the sons that she has brought up.

¹⁹ These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword. Who shall comfort thee?

²⁰ Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

²¹ Therefore now hear this, thou afflicted and drunken, but not with wine:

²² Thus has thy Lord said, I AM thy God who pleads the cause of his people; Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

²³ But I will put it into the hand of those that afflict thee, which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to those that went over.

⁶ ¶ Not as though the word of God has been deficient. For not all the descendants of Israel are Israelites;

⁷ neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are all sons, but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

⁸ That is, Those who are sons of the flesh, these are not the sons of God; but those who are sons of the promise are counted in the generation.

⁹ For the word of the promise is this, At this time I will come, and Sara shall have a son.

¹⁰ And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac

¹¹ (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand: not of works, but of him that calls),

¹² it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

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