Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ Gracious and merciful [is] Jehovah, Slow to anger, and great in kindness.

⁹ Good [is] Jehovah to all, And His mercies [are] over all His works.

¹⁴ Jehovah is supporting all who are falling, And raising up all who are bowed down.

¹⁵ The eyes of all unto Thee do look, And Thou art giving to them their food in its season,

¹⁶ Opening Thy hand, and satisfying The desire of every living thing.

¹⁷ Righteous [is] Jehovah in all His ways, And kind in all His works.

¹⁸ Near [is] Jehovah to all those calling Him, To all who call Him in truth.

¹⁹ The desire of those fearing Him He doth, And their cry He heareth, and saveth them.

²⁰ Jehovah preserveth all those loving Him, And all the wicked He destroyeth.

²¹ The praise of Jehovah my mouth speaketh, And all flesh doth bless His holy name, To the age and for ever!

¹⁷ Stir thyself, stir thyself, rise, Jerusalem, Who hast drunk from the hand of Jehovah The cup of His fury, The goblet, the cup of trembling, thou hast drunk, Thou hast wrung out.

¹⁸ There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she hath borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the sons she hath nourished.

¹⁹ These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction -- Famine and sword, who -- I comfort thee?

²⁰ Thy sons have been wrapt up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as a wild ox [in] a net, They are full of the fury of Jehovah, The rebuke of Thy God.

²¹ Therefore, hear, I pray thee, this, O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,

²² Thus said thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God, He pleadeth [for] his people: `Lo, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling, The goblet, the cup of My fury, Thou dost not add to drink it any more.

²³ And I have put it into the hand of those afflicting thee, Who have said to thy soul, Bow down, and we pass over, And thou makest as the earth thy body, And as the street to those passing by!'

⁶ And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who [are] of Israel are these Israel;

⁷ nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children, but -- `in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

⁸ that is, the children of the flesh -- these [are] not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

⁹ for the word of promise [is] this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

¹⁰ And not only [so], but also Rebecca, having conceived by one -- Isaac our father --

¹¹ (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her --

¹² `The greater shall serve the less;'

¹³ according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'