Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
7 For thus says the LORD: “Rejoice with gladness for Jacob, and shout for joy among the chief of the Gentiles! Publish praise, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
8 “Behold, I will bring them from the North country and gather them from the coasts of the world, the blind and the lame among them, the woman with child as well as she who has delivered. A great company shall return here.
9 “They shall come, weeping. And with mercy will I bring them back. I will lead them by the rivers of water, on a straight path on which they shall not stumble. For I am a Father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.
10 “Hear the Word of the LORD, O you Gentiles! And declare in the far away isles, and say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather it, and will keep it, as a Shepherd does His flock!
11 ‘For the LORD has redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he!’
12 “Therefore, they shall come and rejoice in the height of Zion, and shall run to the bountifulness of the LORD, for the wheat and for the wine, and for the oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd. And their soul shall be as a watered garden. And they shall have no more sorrow.
13 “Then the virgin shall rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old men, together. For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrows.
14 “And I will replenish the soul of the priests with fatness. And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness,” says the LORD.
12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!
13 For He has made the bars of the gates strong and has blessed your children within you.
14 He sets peace on your borders and satisfies you with the flour of wheat.
15 He sends forth His Commandment upon Earth; and His Word runs very swiftly.
16 He gives snow like wool and scatters the hoary frost like ashes.
17 He casts forth His ice like morsels. Who can abide the cold thereof?
18 He sends His Word and melts them. He causes His wind to blow and the waters to flow.
19 He shows His Word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.
20 He has not dealt so with every nation; nor have they known His judgments. Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD
3 Blessed be God, and the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, Who has blessed us with all spiritual blessing in the Heavenly realms in Christ,
4 as He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love;
5 having predestined us to be adopted, through Jesus Christ, to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He has freely bestowed on us in the Beloved;
7 in Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace,
8 with which He has been abundant toward us in all wisdom and understanding;
9 and has made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He has purposed in Him.
10 That in the dispensation of the fullness of the times, He might gather together all things in Christ, both in Heaven and on Earth;
11 in Whom we also have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according the counsel of His own will,
12 that we who first trusted in Christ, should be to the praise of His Glory;
13 in Whom also, you, having heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation, and after having believed, were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
14 Who is the guarantee of our inheritance, for the redemption of that acquired possession, to the praise of His Glory.
1 In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. And the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
4 In Him was life. And that life was the Light of man.
5 And the Light shines in the darkness. And the darkness has not understood it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
7 One who came for a witness, to testify about the Light; so that through him all might believe.
8 He was not the Light, but bore witness of the Light;
9 that is, the true Light, which, coming into the world, lights all mankind.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.
11 He came to His own, and His own received Him not.
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave power to be children of God, to those who believe in His Name,
13 who are born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. And we saw the Glory of Him, as the Glory of the Only Begotten One of the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 John bore witness of him, and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me, is in front of me. For He was before me.’”
16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.
17 For the Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18 No one has yet seen God at any time. The Only Begotten Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
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