Book of Common Prayer

⁵ Adonai-Tzva’ot, how long will You be angry
with the prayer of Your people?
⁶ You have fed them the bread of tears
and made them drink a measure of tears.
⁷ You make us a contention to our neighbors,
and our enemies mock as they please.
⁸ Elohei-Tzva’ot, restore us, and make Your face shine,
and we will be saved.

⁹ You pulled out a vine from Egypt.
You drove out nations and planted it.
¹⁰ You cleared a place for it,
    and it took deep root and filled the land.
¹¹ The mountains were covered by its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches.
¹² It sent out its branches to the sea,
and its shoots to the river.
¹³ Why have You broken down its fences,
so all who pass by the way pick its fruit?
¹⁴ A boar from the forest ravages it,
whatever moves in the field feeds on it.
¹⁵ Elohei-Tzva’ot, please return!
Look down from heaven and see!
Now take care of this vine—
¹⁶ the shoot Your right hand planted—
the son You strengthened for Yourself.
¹⁷ It is burned with fire, it is cut down.
They perish from the rebuke of Your face.
¹⁸ Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand—
the son of man
    You made strong for Yourself.
¹⁹ Then we will not turn away from You.
Revive us, and we will call on Your Name.
²⁰ Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, restore us.
Make Your face shine, and we will be saved.

¹² Exalt Adonai, O Jerusalem!
Praise your God, O Zion!
¹³ For He strengthens the bars of your gates.
He blesses your children within you.
¹⁴ He puts shalom within your borders.
He satisfies you with the finest wheat.
¹⁵ He sends earth His command—
His word runs swiftly.
¹⁶ He gives snow like wool.
He scatters frost like ashes.
¹⁷ He hurls down His hail like pebbles—
    who can stand before His cold?
¹⁸ He sends forth His word and melts them.
He makes His wind blow and waters flow.
¹⁹ He declares His word to Jacob,
His decrees and His rulings to Israel.
²⁰ He has not done so with any other nation.
They have not known His judgments.
Halleluyah!

¹³ So Adonai says,
    “Since these people draw near with their mouths
        and honor Me with their lips,
    yet their hearts are far from Me,
        and their fear of Me is a mitzvah taught by men.^[a]
14 Therefore, behold, once more I will do a marvelous work among this people—
a marvel and a wonder—
so the wisdom of their wise will perish,
and the discernment of their discerning will be concealed.”
¹⁵ Oy, those who go to great depths
    to hide their plans from Adonai!
Their works are in the dark.
They say, “Who sees us?
    Who knows us?”
¹⁶ Your perversity!
    Should the potter be regarded the same as the clay?
Should the thing made say to its maker,
    “You did not make me”?
Or the thing formed say of its former,
    “You have no understanding?”^[b]
17 Will it not be just a very little while
before Lebanon turns into a garden,
and a garden will seem like a forest?
¹⁸ In that day the deaf will hear words of a book,
and out of gloom and darkness
    the eyes of the blind will see.
¹⁹ The meek will add to their joy in Adonai,
and the needy of humanity will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
²⁰ For the ruthless will come to an end
and the scorner will be finished,
and all watching to do evil cut off.
²¹ Those who make a man out to be guilty with a word,
and trap him who reproves at the gate,
and deny justice with meaninglessness.
²² Therefore, thus says Adonai, Redeemer of Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:
“Jacob will no longer be ashamed,
no longer will his face grow pale;
²³ for when he sees his children,
the work of My hands in his midst,
they will sanctify My Name;
they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob,
and stand in awe of the God of Israel.

²⁴ Those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding,
and those who murmur will learn instruction.”