Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
14 [a] The Lord supports all who fall,
and lifts up all who are bent over.[b]
15 Everything looks to you in anticipation,[c]
and you provide them with food on a regular basis.[d]
16 You open your hand,
and fill every living thing with the food it desires.[e]
17 The Lord is just in all his actions,[f]
and exhibits love in all he does.[g]
18 The Lord is near all who cry out to him,
all who cry out to him sincerely.[h]
19 He satisfies the desire[i] of his loyal followers;[j]
he hears their cry for help and delivers them.
20 The Lord protects all those who love him,
but he destroys all the wicked.
21 My mouth will praise the Lord.[k]
Let all who live[l] praise his holy name forever.
17 Wake up! Wake up!
Get up, O Jerusalem!
You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you,
which was full of his anger.[a]
You drained dry
the goblet full of intoxicating wine.[b]
18 There was no one to lead her
among all the children she bore;
there was no one to take her by the hand
among all the children she raised.
19 These double disasters confronted you.
But who feels sorry for you?
Destruction and devastation,
famine and sword.
But who consoles you?[c]
20 Your children faint;
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a snare.
They are left in a stupor by the Lord’s anger,
by the battle cry of your God.[d]
21 So listen to this, oppressed one,
who is drunk, but not from wine.
22 This is what your Sovereign[e] Lord, even your God who judges[f] his people says:
“Look, I have removed from your hand
the cup of intoxicating wine,[g]
the goblet full of my anger.[h]
You will no longer have to drink it.
23 I will put it into the hand of your tormentors[i]
who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’
You made your back like the ground,
and like the street for those who walked over you.”
6 It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,[a] 7 nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather “through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”[b] 8 This means[c] it is not the children of the flesh[d] who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants. 9 For this is what the promise declared:[e] “About a year from now[f] I will return and Sarah will have a son.”[g] 10 Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man,[h] our ancestor Isaac— 11 even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election[i] would stand, not by works but by[j] his calling)[k]— 12 [l] it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger,”[m] 13 just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[n]
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