Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
Tell the Coming Generation
A Maskil[a] of (A)Asaph.
78 (B)Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
2 (C)I will open my mouth (D)in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3 things that we have heard and known,
that our (E)fathers have told us.
4 We will not (F)hide them from their children,
but (G)tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
and (H)the wonders that he has done.
52 Then he led out his people (A)like sheep
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 (B)He led them in safety, so that they (C)were not afraid,
but (D)the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to his (E)holy land,
(F)to the mountain which his right hand had (G)won.
55 He (H)drove out nations before them;
he (I)apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56 Yet they (J)tested and (K)rebelled against the Most High God
and did not keep his testimonies,
57 but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;
they twisted like (L)a deceitful bow.
58 For they (M)provoked him to anger with their (N)high places;
they (O)moved him to jealousy with their (P)idols.
59 When God heard, he was full of (Q)wrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
60 He (R)forsook his dwelling at (S)Shiloh,
the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
61 and delivered his (T)power to captivity,
his (U)glory to the hand of the foe.
62 He (V)gave his people over to the sword
and (W)vented his wrath on his heritage.
63 (X)Fire devoured their young men,
and their young women had no (Y)marriage song.
64 Their (Z)priests fell by the sword,
and their (AA)widows made no lamentation.
65 Then the Lord (AB)awoke as from sleep,
like a strong man shouting because of wine.
66 And he (AC)put his adversaries to rout;
he put them to everlasting shame.
67 He rejected the tent of (AD)Joseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he (AE)loves.
69 He (AF)built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.
70 He (AG)chose David his servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 from (AH)following the nursing ewes he brought him
to (AI)shepherd Jacob his people,
Israel his (AJ)inheritance.
72 With (AK)upright heart he shepherded them
and (AL)guided them with his skillful hand.
13 In the evening (A)quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning (B)dew lay around the camp. 14 And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground. 15 When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, (C)“What is it?”[a] For they (D)did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, (E)“It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an (F)omer,[b] according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.’” 17 And the people of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less. 18 But when they measured it with an omer, (G)whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat. 19 And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.” 20 But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and (H)it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. 21 Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.
22 On (I)the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, 23 he said to them, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of (J)solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.’” 24 So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and (K)it did not stink, and there were no worms in it. 25 Moses said, “Eat it today, for (L)today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.”
19 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For (A)who can resist his will?” 20 But who are you, O man, (B)to answer back to God? (C)Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 (D)Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump (E)one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience (F)vessels of wrath (G)prepared for destruction, 23 in order to make known (H)the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he (I)has prepared beforehand for glory— 24 even us whom he (J)has called, (K)not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? 25 As indeed he says in Hosea,
(L)“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”
26 (M)“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called (N)‘sons of the living God.’”
27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: (O)“Though the number of the sons of Israel[a] be as the sand of the sea, (P)only a remnant of them will be saved, 28 for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” 29 And as Isaiah predicted,
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