Old Testament: Job 42:1-6, 10-17

¹Then Job answered the Lord: ²“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ³‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.⁴‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you declare to me.’ ⁵I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;⁶therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

¹⁰And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. ¹¹Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring.¹²The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys. ¹³He also had seven sons and three daughters. ¹⁴He named the first Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. ¹⁵In all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers. ¹⁶After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children’s children, four generations. ¹⁷And Job died, old and full of days.

Psalm: Psalm 34:1-8, (19-22)

¹ I will bless the Lord at all times; * 
       his praise shall ever be in my mouth.
² I will glory in the Lord; * 
       let the humble hear and rejoice.
³ Proclaim with me the greatness of the Lord; * 
       let us exalt his Name together.
⁴ I sought the Lord, and he answered me * 
       and delivered me out of all my terror.
⁵ Look upon him and be radiant, * 
       and let not your faces be ashamed.
⁶ I called in my affliction and the Lord heard me * 
       and saved me from all my troubles.
⁷ The angel of the Lord encompasses those who fear him, * 
       and he will deliver them.
⁸ Taste and see that the Lord is good; * 
       happy are they who trust in him!
¹⁹ [Many are the troubles of the righteous, * 
       but the Lord will deliver him out of them all.
²⁰ He will keep safe all his bones; * 
       not one of them shall be broken.
²¹ Evil shall slay the wicked, * 
       and those who hate the righteous will be punished.
²² The Lord ransoms the life of his servants, * 
       and none will be punished who trust in him.]

Old Testament: Jeremiah 31:7-9

⁷For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, “Save, O Lord, your people, the remnant of Israel.” ⁸See, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labor, together; a great company, they shall return here. ⁹With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will let them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Psalm: Psalm 126

¹ When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, *
       then were we like those who dream.
² Then was our mouth filled with laughter, *
       and our tongue with shouts of joy.
³ Then they said among the nations, *
      “The Lord has done great things for them.”
⁴ The Lord has done great things for us, *
       and we are glad indeed.
⁵ Restore our fortunes, O Lord, *
       like the watercourses of the Negev.
⁶ Those who sowed with tears *
       will reap with songs of joy.
⁷ Those who go out weeping, carrying the seed, *
       will come again with joy, shouldering their sheaves.