Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

84 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. On the gittit. A psalm of the sons of Korach:

^2 (1) How deeply loved are your dwelling-places,
Adonai-Tzva’ot!
^3 (2) My soul yearns, yes, faints with longing
for the courtyards of Adonai;
my heart and body cry for joy
to the living God.

^4 (3) As the sparrow finds herself a home
and the swallow her nest, where she lays her young,
[so my resting-place is] by your altars,
Adonai-Tzva’ot, my king and my God.

^5 (4) How happy are those who live in your house;
they never cease to praise you! (Selah)
^6 (5) How happy the man whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are [pilgrim] highways.

^7 (6) Passing through the [dry] Baka Valley,
they make it a place of springs,
and the early rain clothes it with blessings.

14 The word of Adonai that came to Yirmeyahu concerning the drought:

² “Y’hudah is mourning, her gates are languishing;
they sit on the ground in gloom;
Yerushalayim sends up a cry of anguish.
³ Her nobles send their servants for water;
they go to the cisterns but find no water,
so they return with empty jars.
Ashamed and dismayed, they cover their heads.
⁴ Because of the ground, which is cracked,
since it has not rained in the land,
the farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads.
⁵ The doe in the countryside, giving birth,
abandons her young for lack of grass.
⁶ The wild donkeys standing on the bare heights
gasp for air like jackals;
their eyes grow dim from trying to spot
any vegetation.”

“My soul magnifies Adonai;
⁴⁷     and my spirit rejoices in God, my Savior,
⁴⁸ who has taken notice of his servant-girl
    in her humble position.^[a]
For — imagine it! — from now on, all generations will call me blessed!
⁴⁹     “The Mighty One has done great things for me!
Indeed, his name is holy; ⁵⁰ and in every generation
    he has mercy on those who fear him.^[b]

⁵¹ “He has performed mighty deeds with his arm,
    routed the secretly proud,
⁵² brought down rulers from their thrones,
    raised up the humble,
⁵³ filled the hungry with good things,
    but sent the rich away empty.

⁵⁴ “He has taken the part of his servant Isra’el,
    mindful of the mercy
⁵⁵ which he promised to our fathers,
    to Avraham and his seed forever.”