Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
113 Praise, O you servants of the LORD! Praise the Name of the LORD!
2 Blessed be the Name of the LORD from henceforth and forever!
3 The LORD’s Name is praised from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same.
4 The LORD is high above all nations, His Glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like the LORD our God, Who has His dwelling on High;
6 Who abases Himself to behold things in the heavens and on the Earth?
7 He raises the needy out of the dust, lifts up the poor out of the dung,
8 so that He may set him with the princes, even with the princes of His people.
9 He makes the barren woman dwell with a family, a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!
17 And the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:
18 “Son of man, the House of Israel is to me as dross. All of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace. They are the dross of silver.”
19 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Because you are all like dross, behold, therefore, I will gather you in the midst of Jerusalem.
20 “As they gather silver and bronze, and iron, and lead, and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it to melt it, so I will gather you in My anger and in My wrath and will put you there and melt you.
21 “I will gather you, I say, and blow the fire of My wrath upon you. And you shall be melted in its midst.
22 “As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst. And you shall know that I, the LORD, have poured out My wrath upon you.”
23 And the Word of the LORD came to me, saying:
24 “Son of man, say to her, ‘You are the land that is unclean, not rained upon on the day of wrath.’
25 “A conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion, ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They have taken the riches and precious things. They have made her many widows in her midst.
26 “Her priests have broken My Law and have defiled My holy things. They have put no difference between the holy and profane or discerned between the unclean and the clean. They have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
27 “Her princes in her midst are like wolves, ravening the prey to shed blood, to destroy souls for their own unjust gain.
28 “And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing vanities, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ when the LORD had not spoken.
29 “The people of the land have violently oppressed by plundering and robbing and have violently mistreated the poor and the needy. Yea, they have wrongfully oppressed the stranger.
30 “And I sought for a man among them who would make up the hedge and stand in the gap before Me, for the land, so that I would not destroy it. But I found none.
31 “Therefore, I have poured out My indignation upon them, and consumed them with the fire of My wrath. I have rendered their own ways upon their heads,” says the Lord GOD.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He Who did not spare His own Son - but gave Him up for us all - how shall He not, with Him, also give us all things?
33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s chosen? God is the One who justifies.
34 Who shall condemn? It is Christ, Who died - indeed, or rather, Who is risen again - and Who is also at the right hand of God, interceding for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ; shall tribulation or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written: “For your sake we are killed all day long. We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 Nevertheless, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through Him Who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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