Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
12 How can I repay the Lord
for all the good He has done for me?(A)
13 I will take the cup of salvation
and call on the name of Yahweh.(B)
14 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all His people.(C)
6 The Lord of Hosts will prepare a feast(A)
for all the peoples on this mountain[a](B)—
a feast of aged wine, choice meat,[b] finely aged wine.
7 On this mountain
He will destroy the burial shroud,
the shroud over all the peoples,
the sheet covering all the nations;(C)
8 He will destroy death forever.(D)
The Lord God will wipe away the tears
from every face(E)
and remove His people’s disgrace(F)
from the whole earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
9 On that day it will be said,
“Look, this is our God;
we have waited for Him, and He has saved us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for Him.
Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”(G)
12 He also said to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid. 13 On the contrary, when you host a banquet,(A) invite those who are poor, maimed, lame, or blind.(B) 14 And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid(C) at the resurrection of the righteous.”(D)
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