Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
We Will Boast in the Name of Yahweh
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
20 May Yahweh answer you (A)in the day of distress!
May the (B)name of the (C)God of Jacob set you securely on high!
2 May He send you help (D)from the sanctuary
And (E)uphold you from Zion!
3 May He (F)remember all your meal offerings
And (G)find your burnt offering [a]acceptable! [b]Selah.
4 May He grant you your (H)heart’s desire
And (I)fulfill all your [c]counsel!
5 [d]We will (J)sing for joy over your salvation,
And in the name of our God we will (K)set up our banners.
May Yahweh (L)fulfill all your petitions.
6 Now (M)I know that Yahweh saves His anointed;
He will (N)answer him from His holy heaven
With the [e](O)saving might of His right hand.
7 Some boast in chariots and some in (P)horses,
But (Q)we will [f]boast in the name of Yahweh, our God.
8 They have (R)bowed down and fallen,
But we have (S)risen and stood upright.
9 [g](T)Save, O Yahweh;
May the (U)King answer us in the day we call.
15 Thus says Yahweh,
“(A)A voice is heard in (B)Ramah,
Wailing and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
She (C)refuses to be comforted for her children
Because (D)they are no more.”
16 Thus says Yahweh,
“(E)Restrain your voice from weeping
And your eyes from tears,
For your (F)work will be rewarded,” declares Yahweh,
“And they will (G)return from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is (H)hope for your future,” declares Yahweh,
“And your children will return to their own territory.
18 I have surely heard Ephraim (I)grieving,
‘You have (J)chastised me, and I was chastised,
Like an untrained (K)calf;
(L)Cause me to return that I may return,
For You are Yahweh my God.
19 For after I turned away, I (M)repented;
And after I was instructed, I (N)slapped my thigh;
I was (O)ashamed and also dishonored
Because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
20 Is (P)Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a delightful child?
Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him,
I certainly still remember him;
Therefore My [a](Q)inmost being yearns for him;
I will surely (R)have compassion on him,” declares Yahweh.
21 “Set up roadmarks for yourself,
Place for yourself guideposts;
(S)Set your heart to the highway,
The way by which you went.
(T)Return, O virgin of Israel,
Return to these your cities.
22 How long will you go here and there,
O (U)faithless daughter?
For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth—
A [b]woman will encompass a man.”
Lament over Jerusalem
41 And as He approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He (A)cried over it, 42 saying, “If you knew in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you [a]when your enemies will (B)throw up a [b]barricade against you, and (C)surround you and hem you in on every side, 44 and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and (D)they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not [c]recognize (E)the time of your visitation.”
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