Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
15 Justice and judgment are the foundation of your throne;
mercy and faithfulness march before you.(A)
16 Blessed the people who know the war cry,
who walk in the radiance of your face, Lord.
17 In your name they sing joyfully all the day;
they rejoice in your righteousness.(B)
18 You are their majestic strength;
by your favor our horn[a] is exalted.(C)
8 Hence, thus says the Lord of hosts: Since you would not listen to my words, 9 I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the Lord—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.(A) 10 Among them I will put to an end the song of joy and the song of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstone and the light of the lamp. 11 This whole land shall be a ruin and a waste. Seventy years these nations shall serve the king of Babylon;(B) 12 but when the seventy years have elapsed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation and the land of the Chaldeans for their guilt—oracle of the Lord. Their land I will turn into everlasting waste.(C) 13 Against that land I will fulfill all the words I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. 14 They also shall serve many nations and great kings, and thus I will repay them according to their own deeds and according to the works of their hands.(D)
7 You were running well;[a] who hindered you from following [the] truth? 8 (A)That enticement does not come from the one who called you.[b] 9 A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough.(B) 10 I am confident of you in the Lord that you will not take a different view, and that the one who is troubling you will bear the condemnation, whoever he may be.(C) 11 As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision,[c] why am I still being persecuted? In that case, the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.(D) 12 Would that those who are upsetting you might also castrate themselves![d]
Freedom for Service.[e]
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