Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

81 Sing joyfully to God our strength! Sing loud to the God of Jacob!

² Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the viol.

³ Blow the trumpet on the New Moon, in the time appointed at our Feast day.

⁴ For this is a statute for Israel, a Law of the God of Jacob.

⁵ He set this in Joseph for a testimony. When He came out of the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I did not understand.

⁶ “I have withdrawn his shoulder from the burden. His hands have left the pots.

⁷ “You called in affliction and I delivered you, answered you in the secret of the thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

⁸ “Hear, O My people, and I will testify to you, O Israel, if you will listen to me

⁹ “and will have no strange god in you or worship any strange god

¹⁰ “(for I am the LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt). Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!

¹¹ “But My people would not hear My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

¹² “So, I gave them up to the hardness of their heart, and they have walked in their own counsels.

¹³ “Oh that My people had listened to me, and Israel had walked in My ways!

¹⁴ “I would soon have humbled their enemies and turned My hand against their adversaries.

¹⁵ “The haters of the LORD will feign subjection to Him, but their time would endure forever.

¹⁶ “And I would have fed them with the fat of wheat, and with honey out of the rock would I have sufficed you.” A Psalm committed to Asaph

31 “At the same time,” says the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel. And they shall be My people.”

² Thus says the LORD: “The people who escaped the sword found grace in the wilderness.” He walks before Israel to cause it to rest.

³ The LORD has appeared to me from afar, saying: “Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore, with mercy I have drawn you.

⁴ “I will build you again. And you shall be built, O virgin Israel. You shall still be adorned with your tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of those who are joyful.

⁵ “You shall still plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria. And the planters who plant them shall make them common.

⁶ “For the days shall come that the watchmen upon the mount of Ephraim shall cry, ‘Arise! And let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’

³⁵ And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to Me shall not hunger, and the one who believes in Me shall never thirst.

³⁶ “But I said to you that you have also seen Me, and do not believe.

³⁷ “All that the Father gives Me, shall come to Me. And the one who comes to Me, I shall not cast away.

³⁸ “For I came down from Heaven, not to do My own will, but His will Who has sent Me.

³⁹ “And this is the Father’s will (Who has sent Me): that of all which He has given Me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again at the last day.

⁴⁰ “And this is the will of Him Who sent Me: that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in Him, should have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day.”