Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
117 All nations, praise the LORD! Praise Him, all people!
2 For His lovingkindness is great toward us; and the truth of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!
30 The Word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
2 “Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying, ‘Write all the Words that I have spoken to you in a Book.
3 ‘For lo, the days come,’ says the LORD, ‘that I will bring back the captivity of My people, Israel and Judah,’ says the LORD. ‘For I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers. And they shall possess it.’”
4 Again, these are the Words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5 “For thus says the LORD: ‘We have heard a terrible voice, of fear and not of peace.
6 ‘Demand now and behold if a man can labor with child. Why do I behold every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in labor, and all faces are turned pale?
7 ‘Alas, for this day is great. None like it. It is the time of Jacob’s trouble, yet shall he be delivered from it.
8 ‘For on that day,’ says the LORD of Hosts, ‘I will break his yoke from off your neck and break your bonds. And strangers shall no longer enslave them.
9 ‘But they shall serve the LORD their God and David, their king, whom I will raise up to them.
10 ‘Therefore, do not fear, O My servant, Jacob,’ says the LORD, ‘or be afraid, O Israel. For lo, I will deliver you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall turn back, and shall be in rest and peace. And no one shall make him afraid.
11 ‘For I am with you,’ says the LORD, ‘to save you. Though I utterly destroy all the nations where I have scattered you, still I will not utterly destroy you. But I will correct you by judgment, not utterly cut you off.’
12 “For thus says the LORD: ‘Your bruising is incurable. Your wound is grievous.
13 ‘There is no one to judge your cause or bind your wounds. There are neither medicines nor help for you.
14 ‘All your lovers have forgotten you. They do not seek you. For I have stricken you with the wound of an enemy, with a sharp chastisement for the multitude of your iniquities. Your sins have increased.
15 ‘Why do you cry for your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable. Because of the multitude of your iniquities, the increase of your sins, I have done these things to you.
16 ‘Therefore, all those who devour you shall be devoured. And all your enemies, everyone, shall go into captivity. And those who plunder you shall be plundered. And all those who rob you, I will give to be robbed.
17 ‘For I will restore health to you and I will heal you of your wounds,’ says the LORD, ‘because they called you, “The Castaway,” saying, “This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.”
5 And He who sat upon the throne, said, “Behold, I make all things new!” And He said to me, “Write. For these things are faithful and true.”
6 And He said to me, “It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give freely from the well of the water of life to him who is thirsty.
7 “He who overcomes, shall inherit all things. And I will be his God. And he shall be My Son.
8 “But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall take their place in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
9 And there came to me one of the seven angels, who had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, “Come. I will show you the Bride, the Lamb’s wife.”
10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain. And he showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heaven from God,
11 having the Glory of God. And she shined like a most precious stone—as a jasper stone, clear as crystal—
12 and had a great high wall with twelve gates. And at the gates were twelve angels. And the names written on them were the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
13 On the east part, there were three gates; and on the north side, three gates; on the south side three gates; and on the west side, three gates.
14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations; and in them, the names of the Lamb’s twelve Apostles.
15 And he who walked with me had a golden reed, with which to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
16 And the city lays square. And the length is as large as the breadth of it. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand furlongs. And the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
17 And he measured the wall thereof: 144 cubits, by the measure of man (that is, of the angel).
18 And the structure of the wall was of jasper. And the city was pure gold, like clear glass.
19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was of jasper; the second, Sapphire; the third, of Chalcedony; the fourth of an Emerald;
20 the fifth, of a Sardonyx; the sixth, of a Sardius; the seventh, of a Chrysolite; the eighth, of a Beryl; the ninth, of a Topaz; the tenth, of a Chrysoprase; the eleventh, of a Jacinth; the twelfth, an Amethyst.
21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls. And every gate is made of one pearl. And the street of the city is pure gold, as shining glass.
22 And I saw no Temple therein. For the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it.
23 And their city has no need of the Sun, nor of the Moon, to shine in it. For the Glory of God lit it. And the Lamb is the Light of it.
24 And the people who are saved shall walk in the light of it. And the kings of the Earth shall bring their glory and honor to it.
25 And the gates of it shall not be shut by day. For there shall be no night there.
26 And the glory and honor of the Gentiles shall be brought into it.
27 And there shall enter into it no unclean thing, nor whatever works abomination or lies; but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
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