Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

65 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. A psalm of David. A song:

^2 (1) To you, God, in Tziyon, silence is praise;
and vows to you are to be fulfilled.
^3 (2) You who listen to prayer,
to you all living creatures come.
^4 (3) When deeds of wickedness overwhelm me,
you will atone for our crimes.

^5 (4) How blessed are those you choose and bring near,
so that they can remain in your courtyards!
We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
the Holy Place of your temple.
^6 (5) It is just that you answer us with awesome deeds,
God of our salvation,
you in whom all put their trust,
to the ends of the earth and on distant seas.
^7 (6) By your strength you set up the mountains.
You are clothed with power.
^8 (7) You still the roaring of the seas,
their crashing waves, and the peoples’ turmoil.

^10 (9) You care for the earth and water it,
you enrich it greatly;
with the river of God, full of water,
you provide them grain and prepare the ground.
^11 (10) Soaking its furrows and settling its soil,
you soften it with showers and bless its growth.
^12 (11) You crown the year with your goodness,
your tracks overflow with richness.
^13 (12) The desert pastures drip water,
the hills are wrapped with joy,

48 Listen to this, house of Ya‘akov,
called by the name of Isra’el,
who have come from the spring of Y’hudah,
who swear by the name of Adonai
and invoke the God of Isra’el! —
it is not sincerely or justifiably
² that they call themselves people of the holy city
or rely on the God of Isra’el —
Adonai-Tzva’ot is his name:

³ “I announced things that happened at the beginning, long ago;
they issued from my mouth, I proclaimed them.
Then suddenly I acted, and they occurred.
⁴ Because I knew that you were stubborn,
your neck an iron sinew, your forehead bronze,
⁵ I announced it to you long ago;
before it occurred, I proclaimed it to you;
so that you could not say, ‘My idol did it;
my carved image, my statue, gave the order for it.’