Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
24 O LORD, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom, You have made them all. The Earth is full of Your riches!
25 So great and wide is the sea; in which are innumerable creeping things, both small beasts and great.
26 Thereupon go the ships, and therein plays that Leviathan, whom You have made.
27 All these wait upon You, so that You may give them food in due season.
28 You give it to them, and they gather it. You open Your hand, and they are filled with good things.
29 If You hide Your face, they are troubled. If You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 You send forth Your spirit, and they are created; You renew the face of the Earth.
31 Glory be to the LORD forever. Let the LORD rejoice in His works!
32 He looks on the Earth and it trembles. He touches the mountains and they smoke.
33 I will sing to the LORD all my life. I will praise my God while I live.
34 Let my words be acceptable to Him. I will rejoice in the LORD.
35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the Earth, and the wicked, until there are no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!
18 Then will the LORD be jealous over His land and spare His people.
19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say to His people: “Behold, I will send you grain and wine and oil. And you shall be satisfied with it. And I will no longer make you a reproach among the heathen.
20 “But I will remove the Northern army far away from you. And I will drive him into a barren and desolate land, with his face toward the eastern sea, and his back to the western sea. And his stink shall come up. And his corruption shall ascend because he has exalted himself.”
21 Do not fear, O land. Be glad and rejoice! For the LORD will do great things!
22 Do not be afraid, you beasts of the field. For the pastures of the wilderness are green. For the tree bears her fruit. The fig tree and the vine give their strength.
23 Be glad then, you children of Zion! And rejoice in the LORD your God! For He has given you the rain of righteousness. And He will cause the rain to come down for you, the first rain and the latter rain, in the first month.
24 And the barns shall be full of wheat. And the presses shall abound with wine and oil.
25 “And I will render you the years that the locust has eaten — the creeping locust and the consuming locust and the chewing locust — My great host which I sent among you.
26 “So you shall eat and be satisfied and praise the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt separately with you. And My people shall never be ashamed.
27 “You shall also know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and no other. And My people shall never be ashamed.
28 “And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams. Your young men shall see visions.
29 “And I will also pour My Spirit upon the servants, and upon the maids in those days.
18 For I consider the afflictions of this present time unworthy of the Glory which shall be shown to us.
19 For the eager expectation of the creation awaits the revealing of the sons of God.
20 Because the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but by reason of Him Who has subdued it, under hope.
21 Because the creation shall also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation also groans with us and suffers birth pains together until now.
23 And not only the creation; but also, we who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we sigh in ourselves (awaiting the adoption, the redemption of our body).
24 For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For how can one hope for that which he sees?
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