Isaiah 25:6-9
25:6 On this mountain the LORD of
hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged
wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained
clear.
25:7 And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast
over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up
death forever.
25:8 Then the Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from all
faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for
the LORD has spoken.
25:9 It will be said on that day, Lo, this is our
God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us. This is the LORD for whom
we have waited; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Revelation 21:1-6a
21:1 Then I saw a new heaven
and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and
the sea was no more.
21:2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband.
21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "See, the
home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be
his peoples, and God himself will be with them;
21:4 he will wipe every
tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will
be no more, for the first things have passed away."
21:5 And the one who
was seated on the throne said, "See, I am making all things new." Also he said,
"Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true."
21:6a Then he
said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the
end.
John 11:32-44
11:32 When Mary came where Jesus
was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been
here, my brother would not have died."
11:33 When Jesus saw her weeping,
and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit
and deeply moved.
11:34 He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to
him, "Lord, come and see."
11:35 Jesus began to weep
11:36 So the
Jews said, "See how he loved him!"
11:37 But some of them said, "Could
not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from
dying?"
11:38 Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It
was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
11:39 Jesus said, "Take
away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already
there is a stench because he has been dead four days."
11:40 Jesus said
to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of
God?"
11:41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and
said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me.
11:42 I knew that you
always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so
that they may believe that you sent me."
11:43 When he had said this, he
cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus come out!"
11:44 The dead man came out,
his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth.
Jesus said to them, "Unbind him and let him go."
