The Year of the Lord’s Favor
1 sThe Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has tanointed me
to bring good news to the poor;1
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
18 y“The Spirit of the Lord zis upon me,
because he has anointed me
to aproclaim good news to the poor.
bHe has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives
and crecovering of sight to the blind,
dto set at liberty those who are oppressed,
2 The earth was bwithout form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 And God said, c“Let there be light,” and there was light.
6 By pthe word of the Lord the heavens were made,
16 yDraw near to me, hear this:
from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,
from the time it came to be I have been there.”
And now zthe Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.
Sit at My Right Hand
A Psalm of David.
1 qThe Lord says to my Lord:
r“Sit at my right hand,
Sit at My Right Hand
A Psalm of David.
1 qThe Lord says to my Lord:
r“Sit at my right hand,
7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”
Isaiah’s Vision of the Lord
1 In the year that sKing Uzziah died I tsaw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train1 of his robe filled the temple.
3 And one called to another and said:
u“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had usix wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent jthe Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
18 For athrough him we both have baccess in cone Spirit to the Father.
5 he saved us, enot because of works done by us in righteousness, but faccording to his own mercy, by gthe washing of regeneration and hrenewal of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he ipoured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
