Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
7 Turn us again, O God of Hosts. Cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved.
8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt. You have cast out the heathen and planted it.
9 You made room for it, and caused it to take root, and it filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with the shadow of it; and the boughs thereof were like the pleasant cedars.
11 She stretched out her branches to the sea, and her boughs to the river.
12 Why have You broken down her hedges, so that all those who pass by the way have plucked her?
13 The wild boar, out of the wood, has destroyed it; and the wild beasts of the field have eaten it up.
14 Return, we beg You, O God of Hosts! Look down from Heaven and behold, and visit this vine
15 and the vineyard that Your right hand has planted, and the young vine which You made strong for Yourself.
23 “How can you say, ‘I am not polluted, nor have I followed Baal?’ Behold your ways in the valley and know what you have done. You are like a swift dromedary traversing her ways,
24 “a wild donkey used to the wilderness that sniffs at the wind in her passion. Who can turn her back when in heat? All those who seek her will not weary themselves but will find her in her month.
25 “Keep your feet from bareness, and your throat from thirst. But you said desperately, ‘No, for I have loved strangers, and them will I follow.’
26 “As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the House of Israel ashamed, they, their kings, their princes and their priests, and their prophets,
27 “saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You have begotten me.’ For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble, they will say, ‘Arise, and help us!’
28 “But where are your gods that you have made yourself? Let them arise, if they can help you in the time of your trouble. For according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.
29 “Why will you plead with Me? You all have rebelled against Me,” says the LORD.
30 “I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your Prophets like a destroying lion.
31 “O generation, take heed to the Word of the LORD! Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why, then, do My people say, ‘We are lords. We will come no more to You?’
32 “Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me, days without number.
33 “Why do you beautify your ways, to seek love? Therefore, you will also teach the wicked your ways.
34 “Also in your wings is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents. I have not found it in holes, but upon all these.
35 “Yet you say, ‘Because I am guiltless, surely His wrath shall turn from me.’ Behold, I will enter into judgment with you because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
36 “Why do you run around so much to change your ways? For you shall be confounded by Egypt as you are confounded by Assyria.
37 “For you shall go forth from there, and your hands upon your head, because the LORD has rejected your confidence, and you shall not prosper thereby.”
14 Do all things without grumbling or disputing,
15 so that you may be blameless and pure children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a perverted and crooked nation (among whom you shine as lights in the world).
16 Hold forth the Word of life, so that I may rejoice on the day of Christ that I have not run for nothing or labored for nothing.
17 Indeed, and though I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all!
18 And likewise also, you be glad and rejoice with me!
3 Moreover, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It does not trouble me to write the same things to you. And for you it is certain.
2 Beware of dogs. Beware of evil workers. Beware of the concision.
3 For we are the circumcision. We worship God in the Spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh,
4 though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks that he might have confidence in the flesh, more so I—
© 2019, 2024 by Five Talents Audio. All rights reserved.