Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

^4 (E)Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
⁵ For the Lord is good;
^(F)His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.

² “Declare among the nations,
Proclaim, and ^[a]set up a standard;
Proclaim—do not conceal it—
Say, ‘Babylon is ^(B)taken, ^(C)Bel is shamed.
^[b]Merodach is broken in pieces;
^(D)Her idols are humiliated,
Her images are broken in pieces.’
^3 (E)For out of the north ^(F)a nation comes up against her,
Which shall make her land desolate,
And no one shall dwell therein.
They shall ^[c]move, they shall depart,
Both man and beast.

⁴ “In those days and in that time,” says the Lord,
“The children of Israel shall come,
^(G)They and the children of Judah together;
^(H)With continual weeping they shall come,
^(I)And seek the Lord their God.
⁵ They shall ask the way to Zion,
With their faces toward it, saying,
‘Come and let us join ourselves to the Lord
In ^(J)a perpetual covenant
That will not be forgotten.’

⁶ “My people have been ^(K)lost sheep.
Their shepherds have led them ^(L)astray;
They have turned them away on ^(M)the mountains.
They have gone from mountain to hill;
They have forgotten their resting place.
⁷ All who found them have ^(N)devoured them;
And ^(O)their adversaries said, ^(P)‘We have not offended,
Because they have sinned against the Lord, ^(Q)the habitation of justice,
The Lord, ^(R)the hope of their fathers.’