Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
14 The Lord supports all who are falling
and raises up all who are bowed down.(A)
15 The eyes of all look hopefully to you;
you give them their food in due season.(B)
16 You open wide your hand
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17 The Lord is just in all his ways,
merciful in all his works.(C)
18 The Lord is near to all who call upon him,
to all who call upon him in truth.(D)
19 He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;
he hears their cry and saves them.(E)
20 The Lord watches over all who love him,
but all the wicked he destroys.(F)
21 My mouth will speak the praises of the Lord;
all flesh will bless his holy name forever and ever.
The Cup of the Lord
17 Wake up, wake up!
Arise, Jerusalem,
You who drank at the Lord’s hand
the cup of his wrath;
Who drained to the dregs
the bowl of staggering!(A)
18 She has no one to guide her
of all the children she bore;
She has no one to take her by the hand,
of all the children she reared!—
19 Your misfortunes are double;
who is there to grieve with you?
Desolation and destruction, famine and sword!
Who is there to comfort you?
20 Your children lie helpless
at every street corner
like antelopes in a net.
They are filled with the wrath of the Lord,
the rebuke of your God.
21 But now, hear this, afflicted one,
drunk, but not with wine,(B)
22 Thus says the Lord, your Master,
your God, who defends his people:
See, I am taking from your hand
the cup of staggering;
The bowl of my wrath
you shall no longer drink.
23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,
those who said to you,
“Bow down, that we may walk over you.”
So you offered your back like the ground,
like the street for them to walk on.
God’s Free Choice. 6 But it is not that the word of God has failed. For not all who are of Israel are Israel,(A) 7 nor are they all children of Abraham because they are his descendants; but “It is through Isaac that descendants shall bear your name.”(B) 8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.(C) 9 For this is the wording of the promise, “About this time I shall return and Sarah will have a son.”(D) 10 And not only that,(E) but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one husband, our father Isaac[a]— 11 before they had yet been born or had done anything, good or bad, in order that God’s elective plan might continue, 12 not by works but by his call—she was told, “The older shall serve the younger.”(F) 13 As it is written:(G)
“I loved Jacob
but hated Esau.”[b]
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