Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁰⁵ Your words are a flashlight to light the path ahead of me and keep me from stumbling. ¹⁰⁶ I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again and again: I will obey these wonderful laws of yours.

¹⁰⁷ I am close to death at the hands of my enemies; oh, give me back my life again, just as you promised me. ¹⁰⁸ Accept my grateful thanks and teach me your desires. ¹⁰⁹ My life hangs in the balance, but I will not give up obedience to your laws. ¹¹⁰ The wicked have set their traps for me along your path, but I will not turn aside. ¹¹¹ Your laws are my joyous treasure forever. ¹¹² I am determined to obey you until I die.

2 This is another message to Isaiah from the Lord concerning Judah and Jerusalem:

² In the last days Jerusalem and the Temple of the Lord will become the world’s greatest attraction,^[a] and people from many lands will flow there to worship the Lord.

³ “Come,” everyone will say, “let us go up the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God of Israel; there he will teach us his laws, and we will obey them.” For in those days the world will be ruled from Jerusalem. ⁴ The Lord will settle international disputes; all the nations will convert their weapons of war into implements of peace.^[b] Then at the last all wars will stop and all military training will end.

⁴⁴ Jesus shouted to the crowds, “If you trust me, you are really trusting God. ⁴⁵ For when you see me, you are seeing the one who sent me. ⁴⁶ I have come as a Light to shine in this dark world, so that all who put their trust in me will no longer wander in the darkness. ⁴⁷ If anyone hears me and doesn’t obey me, I am not his judge—for I have come to save the world and not to judge it. ⁴⁸ But all who reject me and my message will be judged at the Day of Judgment by the truths I have spoken. ⁴⁹ For these are not my own ideas, but I have told you what the Father said to tell you. ⁵⁰ And I know his instructions lead to eternal life; so whatever he tells me to say, I say!”