Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁴ O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom thou hast made them all; the earth is full of thy riches.

²⁵ So is this great and wide sea, wherein are innumerable creeping things, both small and great beasts.

²⁶ There go the ships; there is that leviathan, whom thou didst make to play therein.

²⁷ These wait all upon thee, that thou may give them their food in due season.

²⁸ Thou givest unto them, they gather; thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.

²⁹ Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their spirit, they cease to exist and return to their dust.

³⁰ Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the earth.

³¹ ¶ Let the glory of the LORD endure for ever; let the LORD rejoice in his works.

³² He looks on the earth, and it trembles: he touches the mountains, and they smoke.

³³ I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

³⁴ My meditation of him shall be sweet; I will be glad in the LORD.

³⁵ Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Halelu- JAH (Praise ye the LORD).

¹⁸ ¶ Then the LORD will be jealous for his earth and forgive his people.

¹⁹ Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you bread and new wine and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no longer make you a reproach among the Gentiles:

²⁰ But I will remove far off from you he of the north wind and will drive him into a land barren and desolate; his face shall be toward the east sea, and his end unto the western sea, and he shall exhale his foul odour, and he shall decompose, because he has lifted himself up.

²¹ Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD has done great things.

²² Be not afraid, ye animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness shall become green again, for the trees shall bear their fruit, the fig tree and the vine shall give their fruits.

²³ Ye also, sons of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the LORD your God for he has given you the former rain according to righteousness, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain as in the beginning.

²⁴ And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

²⁵ And I will restore to you the years that the caterpillar has eaten, the locust, and the cankerworm, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

²⁶ And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God that has dealt wondrously with you; and my people shall never again be ashamed.

²⁷ And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is none other; and my people shall never be ashamed.

²⁸ ¶ And it shall come to pass after this that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

²⁹ and even upon the slaves and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

¹⁸ For I know with certainty that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory which shall be manifested in us.

¹⁹ For the earnest hope of the creatures waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.

²⁰ For the creatures were subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected them,

²¹ with the hope that the same creatures shall be delivered from the slavery of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

²² For we now know that all the creatures groan together and travail in pain together until now.

²³ And not only they, but ourselves also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is to say, the redemption of our body.

²⁴ For in hope we are saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man sees, he does not wait for.