Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
14 The Lord helps all who fall;
He raises up all who are oppressed.[a](A)
15 All eyes look to You,
and You give them their food at the proper time.(B)
16 You open Your hand
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.(C)
17 The Lord is righteous in all His ways
and gracious in all His acts.(D)
18 The Lord is near all who call out to Him,
all who call out to Him with integrity.(E)
19 He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him;
He hears their cry for help and saves them.(F)
20 The Lord guards all those who love Him,
but He destroys all the wicked.(G)
21 My mouth will declare Yahweh’s praise;
let every living thing
praise His holy name forever and ever.(H)
17 Wake yourself, wake yourself up!
Stand up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk the cup of His fury(A)
from the hand of the Lord;
you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs—
the cup that causes people to stagger.
18 There is no one to guide her
among all the children she has raised;
there is no one to take hold of her hand
among all the offspring she has brought up.
19 These two things have happened to you:(B)
devastation and destruction,
famine and sword.
Who will grieve for you?
How can I[a] comfort you?
20 Your children have fainted;
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a net.
They are full of the Lord’s fury,
the rebuke of your God.
21 So listen to this, afflicted
and drunken one—but not with wine.(C)
22 This is what your Lord says—
Yahweh, even your God,
who defends His people(D)—
“Look, I have removed
the cup of staggering from your hand;
that goblet, the cup of My fury.
You will never drink it again.
23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,
who said to you:(E)
Lie down, so we can walk over you.
You made your back like the ground,
and like a street for those who walk on it.
God’s Gracious Election of Israel
6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed.(A) For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.(B) 7 Neither are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants.[a](C) On the contrary, your offspring will be traced[b] through Isaac.(D)[c] 8 That is, it is not the children by physical descent[d] who are God’s children,(E) but the children of the promise(F) are considered to be the offspring. 9 For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.(G)[e] 10 And not only that,(H) but also Rebekah received a promise when she became pregnant[f](I) by one man, our ancestor Isaac. 11 For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—(J) 12 not from works but from the One who calls—she was told: The older will serve the younger.(K)[g] 13 As it is written: I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.(L)[h]
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