Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
24 (A)O Lord, how manifold are Your works!
In wisdom You have made them all.
The earth is full of Your (B)possessions—
25 This great and wide sea,
In which are innumerable teeming things,
Living things both small and great.
26 There the ships sail about;
There is that (C)Leviathan[a]
Which You have [b]made to play there.
27 (D)These all wait for You,
That You may give them their food in due season.
28 What You give them they gather in;
You open Your hand, they are filled with good.
29 You hide Your face, they are troubled;
(E)You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
30 (F)You send forth Your Spirit, they are created;
And You renew the face of the earth.
7 (A)So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them (B)profane My holy name anymore. (C)Then the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. 8 (D)Surely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the Lord God. “This is the day (E)of which I have spoken.
Israel Restored to the Land
21 (A)“I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and (B)My hand which I have laid on them. 22 (C)So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward. 23 (D)The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore (E)I hid My face from them. I (F)gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword. 24 (G)According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them.” ’
25 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: (H)‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the (I)whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name— 26 (J)after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when they (K)dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid. 27 (L)When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and I (M)am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations, 28 (N)then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them [a]captive any longer. 29 (O)And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have (P)poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord God.”
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For (A)we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but (B)the Spirit Himself makes intercession [a]for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now (C)He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints (D)according to the will of God.
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