Isaiah 25 - On This Mountain

⁶ On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of fat things,
    a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined.
⁷ And he will destroy on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples,
    the veil that is spread over all nations.
⁸ He will swallow up death for ever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
    and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth; for the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 11 - The Peaceable Kingdom

¹ There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,
  and a branch shall grow out of his roots.

² And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,
    the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
    the spirit of counsel and might,
    the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
³ And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.

  He shall not judge by what his eyes see,
    or decide by what his ears hear;
⁴ but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
    and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
  and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth,
    and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.
⁵ Righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist,
    and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.

⁶ The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
    and the leopard shall lie down with the kid,
  and the calf and the lion and the fatling together,
    and a little child shall lead them.
⁷ The cow and the bear shall feed;
    their young shall lie down together;
    and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
⁸ The sucking child shall play over the hole of the asp,
    and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.

⁹ They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all my holy mountain;
  for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

Psalm 22 - I Will Tell of Thy Name to My Brethren

²² I will tell of thy name to my brethren;
       in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee:

²³ You who fear the Lord, praise him!
       all you sons of Jacob, glorify him,
       and stand in awe of him, all you sons of Israel!
²⁴ For he has not despised or abhorred
      the affliction of the afflicted;
   and he has not hid his face from him,
      but has heard, when he cried to him.

²⁵ From thee comes my praise in the great congregation;
       my vows I will pay before those who fear him.

²⁶ The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied;
       those who seek him shall praise the Lord!
      May your hearts live for ever!

²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember
       and turn to the Lord;
   and all the families of the nations
       shall worship before him.
²⁸ For dominion belongs to the Lord,
       and he rules over the nations.

²⁹ Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down;
      before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
      and he who cannot keep himself alive.

³⁰ Posterity shall serve him;
      men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,
³¹ and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,
      that he has wrought it.

Isaiah 9 - The People Who Walked in Darkness

² The people who walked in darkness
       have seen a great light;
   those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,
       on them has light shined.

³ Thou hast multiplied the nation,
       thou hast increased its joy;
   they rejoice before thee
       as with joy at the harvest,
       as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

⁴ For the yoke of his burden,
       and the staff for his shoulder,
       the rod of his oppressor,
       thou hast broken as on the day of Mid′ian.

⁵ For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult
       and every garment rolled in blood
       will be burned as fuel for the fire.

⁶ For to us a child is born,
       to us a son is given;
   and the government will be upon his shoulder,
       and his name will be called
   “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
   Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace
       there will be no end,
   upon the throne of David, and over his kingdom,
       to establish it, and to uphold it
   with justice and with righteousness
       from this time forth and for evermore.
   The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Isaiah 2 - Swords Into Plowshares

² It 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 shall be raised above the hills;
   and all the nations shall flow to it,
³       and many peoples 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 out of Zion shall go forth the law,
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
⁴ He shall judge between the nations,
       and shall decide for many peoples;
   and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
       and their spears into pruning hooks;
   nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
       neither shall they learn war any more.

Canticle of Zechariah (Luke 1:68-79)

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel;
for he has come to his people and set them free.
He has raised up for us a mighty savior,
born of the house of his servant David.

Through his holy prophets he promised of old
that he would save us from our enemies,
and from the hands of all who hate us.
He promised to show mercy to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant.

This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
to set us free from the hand of our enemies,
free to worship him without fear,
holy and righteous in his sight
all the days of our life.

You, child, shall be called prophet of the Most High,
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,
to give his people knowledge of salvation
by forgiveness of their sins.

In the tender compassion of our God,
the dawn from on high shall break upon us,
to shine on those who dwell in darkness
and the shadow of death,
and to guide our feet into the way of peace.