From Hands too Strong for Us, Redeemed--Dec. 23, 2015

How good it is to sing praises to you, O God,

for you are gracious, and a song of praise is fitting.

Generation after generation, we have received your promises,

and you have ransomed us, redeemed us from hands too strong for us.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 50; 147:1-11; 53; 17

Jer. 31:10-14

Gal. 3:15-22

Matt. 1:1-17

Selected Verses

Ps. 147:1

Praise the LORD!
          How good it is to sing praises to our God;
          for he is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting. 

Jer. 31:11

For the LORD has ransomed Jacob,

            and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.

Gal. 3:16

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, "And to offsprings," as of many; but it says, "And to your offspring," that is, to one person, who is Christ.

Matt. 1:17

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations.