Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

² Reveal^[b] your power before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh,
    then come to our rescue.

³ God, restore us,
    show your favor^[c] and deliver us.

⁴ Lord God of the Heavenly Armies,
    when will your smoldering anger^[d]
        toward your people’s prayers cease?^[e]
5 You fed them tears as their food,
    and caused them to drink a full measure of tears.
⁶ You have set us at strife against our neighbors
    and our enemies deride us.

⁷ God of the Heavenly Armies, restore us
    and show your favor,^[f]
        so we may be delivered.

⁸ You uprooted a vine from Egypt,
    and drove out nations to transplant it.
⁹ You cleared the ground^[g] so that its roots grew
    and filled the land.
¹⁰ Mountains were covered by its shadows,
    and the mighty cedars by its branches.
¹¹ Its branches spread out to the Mediterranean^[h] Sea
    and its shoots to the Euphrates^[i] River.
¹² Why did you break down its walls
    so that those who pass by pluck its fruits?^[j]
13 Wild boars of the forest gnaw at it,
    and creatures of the field feed on it.

¹⁴ God of the Heavenly Armies, return!
    Look down from heaven and see.
        Show care^[k] toward this vine.
¹⁵ The root^[l] that your right hand planted,
    the shoot^[m] that you tended for yourself,
¹⁶ was burned with fire, cut off,
    and destroyed on account of your rebuke.

¹⁷ May you support the man at your right hand;
    the son of man whom you have raised for yourself.
¹⁸ Then we will not turn away from you.
    Restore us, so we can call upon your name.

¹⁹ God of hosts, restore to us the light of your favor.^[n]
    Then we’ll be delivered.

“The one I love had a vineyard
    on a very fertile hill.
² He plowed its land^[b] and cleared it of stones.
    Then he planted it with the choicest vines,
built a watchtower in the middle of it,
    and dug a wine vat in it;
He expected^[c] it to produce good^[d] grapes,
    but it produced only wild ones.”^[e]

³ “So now, you inhabitants^[f] of Jerusalem
    and men of Judah,
judge, won’t you please,
    between me and my vineyard.
⁴ What more could I do in^[g] my vineyard,
    that I haven’t already done?
When I expected it to produce good^[h] grapes,
    why did it yield^[i] wild ones?^[j]

⁵ “Now, let me tell you, won’t you please,
    what I’m going to do to my vineyard.

“I’m going to take away its protective hedge,
    and it will be devoured;^[k]
I’ll break down its wall,
    and it will be trampled.
⁶ I’ll make it a wasteland,
    and it won’t be pruned or cultivated.
Instead, briers and thorns will grow up.
    I’ll also issue commands to the clouds,
        that they drop no rain upon it.”

⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies
    is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
    are the garden in which he delights.^[l]
He looked for justice,
    but saw only bloodshed;
he searched^[m] for righteousness,
    but heard only an outcry!