Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁸ The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy.

⁹ The LORD is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works.

¹⁴ The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are ready to fall.

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait upon You, and You give them their food in due season.

¹⁶ You open Your hand and fulfill the desire of all living things.

¹⁷ The LORD is righteous in all His ways, and Holy in all His works.

¹⁸ The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.

¹⁹ He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He will also hear their cry and will save them.

²⁰ The LORD preserves all those who love Him; but He will destroy the wicked.

²¹ My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD; and all flesh shall bless His Holy Name forever and ever. Praise the LORD.

¹⁷ Awaken! Awaken and stand up, O Jerusalem, who has drunk the cup of the LORD’s wrath from His Hand. You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out.

¹⁸ There is no one to guide her among all her sons whom she has brought forth. There is no one who takes her by the hand, of all the sons whom she has brought up.

¹⁹ These two things have come to you. Who will lament you? Desolation and destruction and famine and the sword, by whom shall I comfort you?

²⁰ Your sons have fainted and lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.

²¹ Therefore, now hear this, you miserable and drunken (but not with wine).

²² Thus says your LORD God, even God Who pleads the cause of His people, “Behold, I have taken the cup of trembling out of your hand, the dregs of the cup of My wrath. You shall drink it no more.

²³ “But I will put it into the hand of those who plunder you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down so that we may go over.’ And you have laid your body down as the ground, and as the streets, to those who went over.”

⁶ Notwithstanding, it cannot be that the Word of God should take no effect. For not all are Israel who are of Israel.

⁷ Nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham. But: “In Isaac shall your seed be called.”

⁸ That is, those who are the children of the flesh are not the children of God. But the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

⁹ For this is a Word of Promise: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son”;

¹⁰ and not only her, but Rebecca also, when she had conceived by one, even by our Father, Isaac.

¹¹ For before the children were born - and when they had done neither good nor evil (so that the purpose of God might remain according to election; not by works, but by Him Who calls) -

¹² it was said to her: “The Elder shall serve the younger.”

¹³ As it is written: “I have loved Jacob and have hated Esau.”