First ReadingIsaiah 30:19-21, 23-26
From the Book of Isaiah
19For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem.You will weep no more.He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry.When he hears you, he will answer you.20Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversityand the water of affliction,yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more,but your eyes will see your teachers;21and when you turn to the right hand,and when you turn to the left,your ears will hear a voice behind you,saying, “This is the way.Walk in it.”
verse 22 is not read23He will give the rain for your seed,with which you will sow the ground;and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful.In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.24The oxen likewise and the young donkeysthat till the ground will eat savory feed,which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.25There will be brooksand streams of water on every lofty mountainand on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter,when the towers fall.26Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun,and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter,like the light of seven days,in the day that the Lord binds up the fracture of his people,and heals the wound they were struck with.