Sermonstudio

Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with scripture reading.
4 readers -- adults of about the same age

Key:
1 = main storyteller
2 = second storyteller
3 = third storyteller
4 = fourth storyteller

1:For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and
raise shouts for the chief of the nations;

2: proclaim,

3 give praise,

4: and say, "Save, O Lord, your people, the remnant of Israel."

1: See, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and
gather them from the farthest parts of the earth,

2: among them the blind and the lame,

3: those with child and those in labor, together;

4: a great company, they shall return here.

1: With 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.

2: Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,

3: and declare it in the coastlands far away;

4: say, "He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep
him as a shepherd a flock.

1: For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, and has redeemed him from
hands too strong for him.

(1:) They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and
shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord,

2: over the grain, the wine, and the oil,

3: and over the young of the flock and the herd;

4: their life shall become like a watered garden, and they shall
never languish again.

1: Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young
men and the old shall be merry.

2: I will turn their mourning into joy,

3: I will comfort them,

4: and give them gladness for sorrow.

1: I will give the priests their fill of fatness, and my people
shall be satisfied with my bounty, says the Lord.