Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

^1 [b]Come, let us sing with jubilation to the Lord;
    let us cry out to the Rock of our salvation.
² Let us come before him with thanksgiving
    and extol him with our songs.
^3 [c]For the Lord is the great God,
    the King who surpasses all other gods.^[d]
4 In his hands are the depths of the earth,
    and the peaks of the mountains are his.
⁵ To him belongs the sea, for he created it,
    and also the dry land^[e] that his hands have molded.
⁶ Come forth! Let us bow down to worship him;
    let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker.^[f]
7 For he is our God,
    and we are the people he shepherds,^[g]
    the flock he protects.
If only you would listen to his voice today:
⁸     “Harden not your hearts as you did at Meribah,^[h]
    as on the day of Massah in the wilderness.
⁹ It was there that your ancestors sought to tempt me;
    they put me to the test
    even though they had witnessed my works.^[i]
10 “For forty years^[j] I loathed that generation;
    I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,
    and they do not know my ways.’
¹¹ Therefore, in my anger I swore,
    ‘They will never enter my rest.’ ”^[k]

⁸ Do not gloat over me, O my enemy.
    Although I have fallen, I will arise.
Although I sit in darkness,
    the Lord is my light.
⁹ I must endure the anger of the Lord
    because I have sinned against him,
until he takes up my cause
    and forgives my wrongs,
until he brings me into the light
    and I will behold his saving justice.
¹⁰ When my enemies see this,
    they will be filled with shame,
those who said to me,
    “Where is the Lord, your God?”
My eyes will see their downfall
    as they are trampled underfoot
    like mud in the streets.
¹¹ That will be the day for rebuilding your walls,
    the day for extending your boundaries.
¹² On that day a people will come to you,
    all the way from Assyria and from Egypt,
from Tyre to the Euphrates,
    from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
¹³ And the earth will be a wasteland
    because of its inhabitants,
    as a suitable punishment for their deeds.^[b]

¹⁴ Shepherd your people with your staff,
    the flock that is your heritage,
that lives by itself in a forest
    with meadows surrounding it.
Let them graze in Bashan^[c] and Gilead,
    as in the days of old.
¹⁵ Show us wondrous signs
    as in the days when you came out
    from the land of Egypt.
¹⁶ The nations will see and be confounded
    despite all their power.
They will put their hands over their mouths;
    their ears will become deaf.
¹⁷ They will lick the dust like snakes,
    like reptiles that crawl on the ground.
They will come trembling out of their strongholds
    and turn in dread to behold the Lord, our God,
    as they approach him in awe and terror.

¹⁸ What god can compare with you,
    the God who takes away guilt
and forgives the transgressions
    of the remnant of your people?
You will not allow your anger to fester forever,
    for your delight is in bestowing mercy.
¹⁹ You will again show us compassion
    and wash away our guilt;
you will cast all our sins
    into the depths of the sea.
²⁰ You will show faithfulness to Jacob
    and unswerving mercy to Abraham
as you swore to our ancestors
    from the days of old.

‘I will strike the shepherd,
    and the sheep will be scattered.’