Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.

⁹ Jehovah is good to all; and his tender mercies are over all his works.

¹⁴ Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all that are bowed down.

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their food in its season.

¹⁶ Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

¹⁷ Jehovah is righteous in all his ways, and kind in all his works.

¹⁸ Jehovah is nigh unto all that call upon him, unto all that call upon him in truth.

¹⁹ He fulfilleth the desire of them that fear him; he heareth their cry, and saveth them.

²⁰ Jehovah keepeth all that love him, and all the wicked will he destroy.

²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of Jehovah; and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

¹⁷ Arouse thyself, arouse thyself, stand up, Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his fury. Thou hast drunk, hast drained out the goblet-cup of bewilderment:

¹⁸ —there is none to guide her among all the children that she hath brought forth; neither is there any to take her by the hand of all the children that she hath brought up.

¹⁹ These two [things] are come unto thee; who will bemoan thee?—desolation and destruction, and famine and sword: how shall I comfort thee?

²⁰ Thy children have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an oryx in a net: they are full of the fury of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.

²¹ Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

²² thus saith thy Lord, Jehovah, and thy God, who pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I take out of thy hand the cup of bewilderment, the goblet-cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

²³ and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street to them that went over.

⁶ Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel;

⁷ nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children: but, In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

⁸ That is, [they that are] the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned as seed.

⁹ For this word [is] of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.

¹⁰ And not only [that], but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,

¹¹ [the children] indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

¹² it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

¹³ according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau.