O God of Our Salvation
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.
1 Praise is due to you,1 O God, in Zion,
and to you shall vows be performed.
2 O you who hear prayer,
lto you shall all flesh come.
3 When iniquities prevail against me,
you matone for our transgressions.
4 nBlessed is the one you choose and bring near,
oto dwell in your courts!
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
the holiness of your temple!
5 By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness,
O God of our salvation,
the hope of all the ends of the earth
and of the farthest seas;
6 the one who by his strength established the mountains,
being pgirded with might;
7 who qstills the roaring of the seas,
the roaring of their waves,
the rtumult of the peoples,
8 so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs.
You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.
9 You visit the earth and swater it;2
you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
you provide their grain,
for so you have prepared it.
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
and blessing its growth.
11 You crown the year with your bounty;
your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.
12 The tpastures of the wilderness overflow,
the hills gird themselves with joy,
13 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
the valleys deck themselves with grain,
uthey shout and sing together for joy.
Make Your Face Shine upon Us
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.
1 fMay God be gracious to us and bless us
and gmake his face to shine upon us, Selah
2 that your way may be known on earth,
your hsaving power among all nations.
3 Let the peoples praise you, O God;
let iall the peoples praise you!
4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
for you jjudge the peoples with equity
and guide the nations upon earth. Selah
5 Let the peoples praise you, O God;
let all the peoples praise you!
6 kThe earth has yielded its increase;
God, our God, shall bless us.
7 God shall bless us;
llet all the ends of the earth fear him!
The Mountain of the Lord
1 mIt shall come to pass in the latter days
that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and it shall be lifted up above the hills;
and npeoples shall flow to it,
2 and omany nations shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
and that we may walk in his paths.”
For pout of Zion shall go forth the law,1
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3 He shall judge between many peoples,
and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;
and they shall beat their qswords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
rnation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore;
4 sbut they shall sit tevery man under his vine and under his fig tree,
and uno one shall make them afraid,
for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
5 For all the peoples walk
each in the name of its god,
but we will vwalk in the name of the Lord our God
forever and ever.
The Lord Shall Rescue Zion
6 In that day, declares the Lord,
and gather those who have been driven away
and those whom I have afflicted;
7 and the lame I will make the yremnant,
and those who were cast off, a strong nation;
and the Lord will zreign over them in Mount Zion
from this time forth and forevermore.
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, zwho sinned, this man aor his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but bthat the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 We must work the works of him who sent me cwhile it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, dI am the elight of the world.” 6 Having said these things, he fspit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he ganointed the man’s eyes with the mud 7 and said to him, h“Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
8 The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, i“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some said, “It is he.” jOthers said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” 10 So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” 11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” 12 They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. 14 kNow it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15 So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” 16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not lfrom God, mfor he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a ndivision among them. 17 So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has oopened your eyes?” He said, p“He is a prophet.”
18 The Jews1 did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight 19 and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” 20 His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 21 But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” 22 (His parents said these things because they qfeared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus2 to be Christ, he was to be rput out of the synagogue. 23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”)
24 So sfor the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, t“Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.” 25 He answered, “Whether he is a usinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” 26 They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” 27 He answered them, “I have told you valready, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” 28 And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but wwe are disciples of xMoses. 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, ywe do not know where he comes from.” 30 The man answered, “Why, zthis is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God adoes not listen to sinners, but bif anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. 32 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” 34 They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”3 36 He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” 37 Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and cit is he who is speaking to you.” 38 He said, d“Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. 39 Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.” 40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” 41 Jesus said to them, e“If you were blind, you would have no guilt;4 but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
