Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴ 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; His mercy endures forever,
    and His faithfulness to all generations.

² Declare among the nations and publish,
    and set up a standard;
    do not conceal it, but say,
Babylon has been captured.
    Bel has been humiliated.
    Marduk has been broken in pieces;
her idols have been humiliated;
    her images have been broken in pieces.
³ For out of the north there comes up a nation against her,
    which will make her land desolate,
and no one will dwell in it.
    They will wander away;
they will depart,
    both man and beast.

⁴ In those days and at that time,
    says the Lord,
the sons of Israel will come,
    they and the children of Judah together.
They will go along weeping as they go,
    and seek the Lord their God.
⁵ They will ask for the way to Zion
    with their faces in its direction.
They will come that they may join themselves to the Lord
    in a perpetual covenant
    that will not be forgotten.

⁶ My people have been lost sheep.
    Their shepherds have caused them to go astray;
they have turned them away on the mountains.
    They have gone from mountain to hill
    and have forgotten their resting place.
⁷ All who found them have devoured them,
    and their adversaries said, “We are not guilty,
because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice,
    even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.”