1 Hear, O Shepherd of Israel, ♦︎
you that led Joseph like a flock;
2 Shine forth, you that are enthroned upon the cherubim, ♦︎
before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh.
3 Stir up your mighty strength ♦︎
and come to our salvation.
4 Turn us again, O God; ♦︎
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
5 O Lord God of hosts, ♦︎
how long will you be angry at your peoples prayer?
6 You feed them with the bread of tears; ♦︎
you give them abundance of tears to drink.
7 You have made us the derision of our neighbours, ♦︎
and our enemies laugh us to scorn.
8 Turn us again, O God of hosts; ♦︎
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
9 You brought a vine out of Egypt; ♦︎
you drove out the nations and planted it.
10 You made room around it, ♦︎
and when it had taken root, it filled the land.
11 The hills were covered with its shadow ♦︎
and the cedars of God by its boughs.
12 It stretched out its branches to the Sea ♦︎
and its tendrils to the River.
13 Why then have you broken down its wall, ♦︎
so that all who pass by pluck off its grapes?
14 The wild boar out of the wood tears it off, ♦︎
and all the insects of the field devour it.
15 Turn again, O God of hosts, ♦︎
look down from heaven and behold;
16 Cherish this vine which your right hand has planted, ♦︎
and the branch that you made so strong for yourself.
17 Let those who burnt it with fire, who cut it down, ♦︎
perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
18 Let your hand be upon the man at your right hand, ♦︎
the son of man you made so strong for yourself.
19 And so will we not go back from you; ♦︎
give us life, and we shall call upon your name.
20 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts; ♦︎
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
1 God has taken his stand in the council of heaven; ♦︎
in the midst of the gods he gives judgement:
2 How long will you judge unjustly ♦︎
and show such favour to the wicked?
3 You were to judge the weak and the orphan; ♦︎
defend the right of the humble and needy;
4 Rescue the weak and the poor; ♦︎
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
5 They have no knowledge or wisdom;
they walk on still in darkness: ♦︎
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6 Therefore I say that though you are gods ♦︎
and all of you children of the Most High,
7 Nevertheless, you shall die like mortals ♦︎
and fall like one of their princes.
8 Arise, O God and judge the earth, ♦︎
for it is you that shall take all nations for your possession.
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4 Remember the teaching of my servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
5 Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. 6He will turn the hearts of parents to their children and the hearts of children to their parents, so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse.*
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2 When John heard in prison what the Messiah* was doing, he sent word by his* disciples 3and said to him, Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another? 4Jesus answered them, Go and tell John what you hear and see: 5the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers* are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them. 6And blessed is anyone who takes no offence at me.
7 As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed shaken by the wind?
8What then did you go out to see? Someone* dressed in soft robes? Look, those who wear soft robes are in royal palaces.
9What then did you go out to see? A prophet?* Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
10This is the one about whom it is written,
See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare your way before you.
11Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence,* and the violent take it by force.
13For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John came;
14and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.
15Let anyone with ears* listen!
16 But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market-places and calling to one another,
17 We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
we wailed, and you did not mourn.
18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He has a demon;
19the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners! Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.*
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