Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²³ Those who ^(A)go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on many waters;
²⁴ They have seen the works of Yahweh,
And His wondrous deeds in the deep.
²⁵ He ^(B)spoke and set up a ^(C)stormy wind,
Which ^(D)raised up the waves ^[a]of the sea.
²⁶ They went up to the heavens, they went down to the depths;
Their soul ^(E)melted away in the ^[b]calamity.
²⁷ They staggered and ^(F)swayed like a drunken man,
And all their wisdom was swallowed up.
²⁸ Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble,
And He brought them out of their distresses.
²⁹ He ^(G)caused the storm to stand still,
So that its waves were hushed.
³⁰ Then they were glad because they were quiet,
So He led them to their desired haven.
^31 (H)Let them give thanks to Yahweh for His lovingkindness,
And for His ^(I)wondrous deeds to the sons of men!
³² Let them ^(J)exalt Him also ^(K)in the assembly of the people,
And ^(L)praise Him at the seat of the elders.

²¹ “To me ^(A)they listened and waited,
And kept silent for my counsel.
²² After my words they did not ^(B)speak again,
And ^(C)my speech dropped on them.
²³ They waited for me as for the rain,
And opened their mouth as for the ^[a]late rain.
²⁴ I laughed with them as they could not believe it,
And the light of my face they did not cast down.
²⁵ I chose a way for them and sat as ^(D)chief,
And dwelt as their head among the troops,
As one who ^(E)comforted the mourners.

30 “But now those younger than I ^(F)laugh at me,
Whose fathers I rejected even to put with the dogs of my flock.
² Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?
Vigor had perished from them.
³ From want and famine they are gaunt,
Who gnaw the dry ground by night in destruction and desolation,
⁴ Who pluck ^[b]mallow by the bushes,
And whose food is the root of the broom tree.
⁵ They are driven from the community;
They shout against them as against a thief,
⁶ So that they dwell in the slopes of the ^[c]valleys,
In holes of the dust and of the rocks.
⁷ Among the bushes they ^[d]cry out;
Under the nettles they are gathered together.
^8 [e]Wicked fools, even ^[f]those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.

⁹ “And now I have become their mocking ^(G)song;
I have even become a ^(H)taunting word to them.
¹⁰ They abhor me and keep a distance from me,
And they do not ^[g]hold back from ^(I)spitting at my face.
¹¹ Because ^[h]He has loosed ^[i]His ^[j]bowstring and ^(J)afflicted me,
They have thrust aside ^(K)their bridle before me.
¹² On the right hand their ^[k]brood arises;
They ^(L)thrust aside my feet ^(M)and build up against me their ways to disaster.
¹³ They ^(N)break up my path;
They profit ^[l]from my destruction;
They have no helper.
¹⁴ As through a wide breach they come,
^[m]Amid the storm they roll on.
^15 (O)Terrors are turned against me;
They pursue my nobility as the wind,
And my hope for salvation has passed away ^(P)like a cloud.