Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁽¹⁾ How blessed are those whose offense is forgiven,
those whose sin is covered!
² How blessed those to whom Adonai imputes no guilt,
in whose spirit is no deceit!

³ When I kept silent, my bones wasted away
because of my groaning all day long;
⁴ day and night your hand was heavy on me;
the sap in me dried up as in a summer drought. (Selah)

⁵ When I acknowledged my sin to you,
when I stopped concealing my guilt,
and said, “I will confess my offenses to Adonai”;
then you, you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Selah)

⁶ This is what everyone faithful should pray
at a time when you can be found.
Then, when the floodwaters are raging,
they will not reach to him.

⁷ You are a hiding-place for me,
you will keep me from distress;
you will surround me
with songs of deliverance. (Selah)

² “Hear, heaven! Listen, earth!
For Adonai is speaking.

“I raised and brought up children,
but they rebelled against me.
³ An ox knows its owner
and a donkey its master’s stall,
but Isra’el does not know,
my people do not reflect.

⁴ “Oh, sinful nation,
a people weighed down by iniquity,
descendants of evildoers,
immoral children!
They have abandoned Adonai,
spurned the Holy One of Isra’el,
turned their backs on him!

⁵ “Where should I strike you next,
as you persist in rebelling?
The whole head is sick,
the whole heart diseased.
⁶ From the sole of the foot to the head
there is nothing healthy,
only wounds, bruises and festering sores
that haven’t been dressed or bandaged
or softened up with oil.

⁷ “Your land is desolate,
your cities are burned to the ground;
foreigners devour your land in your presence;
it’s as desolate as if overwhelmed by floods.
⁸ The daughter of Tziyon is left
like a shack in a vineyard,
like a shed in a cucumber field,
like a city under siege.”

⁹ If Adonai-Tzva’ot had not left us
a tiny, tiny remnant,
we would have become like S’dom,
we would have resembled ‘Amora.