Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

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Praise the Lord from the earth,
Sea monsters and all deeps;
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Lightning and hail, snow and fog;
Stormy wind, fulfilling His orders;
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Mountains and all hills;
Fruitful trees and all cedars;
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Beasts and all cattle;
Creeping things and winged birds;
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Kings of the earth and all people;
Princes and all judges of the earth;
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Both young men and virgins;
Old men and children.

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Let them praise the name of the Lord,
For His name alone is exalted and supreme;
His glory and majesty are above earth and heaven.
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He has lifted up a horn for His people [giving them strength, prosperity, dignity, and preeminence],
Praise for all His godly ones;
For the people of Israel, a people near to Him.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)^(A)

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And now says the Lord, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant,
To bring Jacob back to Him and that Israel might be gathered to Him,
—For I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,
And My God is My strength—
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He says, “It is too trivial a thing that You should be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the ^[a]survivors of Israel;
I will also make You a light to the nations
That My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
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This is what the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, Israel’s Holy One says,
To the thoroughly despised One,
To the One hated by the nation
To the Servant of rulers,
“^[b]Kings will see and arise,
Princes shall also bow down,
Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”

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This is what the Lord says,
“In a ^[c]favorable time I have answered You,
And in a day of salvation I have helped You;
And I will keep watch over You and give You for a covenant of the people,
To restore the land [from its present state of ruin] and to apportion and give as inheritances the deserted hereditary lands,^(A)
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Saying to those who are bound and captured, ‘Go forth,’
And to those who are in [spiritual] darkness, ‘Show yourselves [come into the light of the Savior].’
They will feed along the roads [on which they travel],
And their pastures will be on all the bare heights.
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“They will not hunger or thirst,
Nor will the scorching heat or sun strike them down;
For He who has compassion on them will lead them,
And He will guide them to springs of water.^(B)
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“And I will make all My mountains a roadway,
And My highways will be raised.
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“In fact, these will come from far away;
And, lo, these shall come from the north and from the west,
And these from the land of ^[d]Aswan (southern Egypt).”
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Shout for joy, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth,
And break forth into singing, O mountains!
For the Lord has comforted His people
And will have compassion on His afflicted.