Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

30 I will magnify You, O LORD. You have exalted me and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

² O LORD, my God, I cried to You; and You have restored me.

³ O LORD, You have brought up my soul out of the grave. You have revived me from those who go down into the pit.

⁴ Sing praises to the LORD, His Saints, and give thanks before the remembrance of His Holiness.

⁵ For His anger endures but a while. In His favor is life. Weeping may abide at evening, but joy comes in the morning.

⁶ And in my prosperity, I said, “I shall never be moved.”

⁷ For You, LORD, from Your goodness, had made my mountain to stand strong. You hid Your face, and I was troubled.

⁸ Then I cried to You, O LORD, and prayed to my LORD.

⁹ What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit! Shall the dust give thanks to You? Or shall it declare Your Truth?

¹⁰ Hear, O LORD; and have mercy upon me. LORD, be my Helper.

¹¹ You have turned my mourning into joy. You have loosened my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.

¹² Therefore, my tongue shall praise You, and not cease. O LORD, my God, I will give thanks to You forever. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.

2 How the LORD has darkened the daughter of Zion in His wrath, has cast down the beauty of Israel from Heaven to the Earth, and not remembered His footstool on the day of His wrath!

² The LORD has destroyed all the habitations of Jacob, and not spared. He has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah in His wrath. He has cast them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its princes.

³ In His fierce wrath He has cut off all the horn of Israel. He has drawn back His right Hand from before the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flame of fire, which devours all around.

⁴ He has bent His bow like an enemy. His right Hand was stretched up, as an adversary, and killed all that was pleasant to the eye in the Tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He poured out His wrath like fire.

⁵ The LORD was like an enemy. He has devoured Israel, consumed all its palaces. He has destroyed its strongholds and has increased lamentation and mourning in the daughter of Judah.

⁶ For He has destroyed His Tabernacle. Like a garden, He has destroyed His Congregation. The LORD has caused the Feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has spurned, in the indignation of His wrath, the king and the priest.

⁷ The LORD has forsaken His Altar. He has abhorred His Sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the House of the LORD, as on the day of a solemn Feast.

⁸ The LORD has determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He stretched out a line. He has not withdrawn His Hand from destroying. Therefore, He caused the rampart and the wall to lament. They were destroyed together.

⁹ Her gates have sunk to the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the Gentiles. The Law is no more, nor can her Prophets receive vision from the LORD.

¹⁰ The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and keep silent. They have thrown dust upon their heads. They have girded themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

¹¹ My eyes fail with tears. My bowels swell. My liver is poured upon the earth for the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and infants swoon in the streets of the city.

¹² They have said to their mothers, “Where is bread and drink?” when they swooned like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they gave up the ghost in their mother’s bosom.

8 We also make known to you, brothers, the grace of God bestowed upon the Churches of Macedonia.

² Because, in great trial of affliction, their joy abounded, and their most extreme poverty abounded unto their rich generosity.

³ For to their power I bear record. Yea, and beyond their power they were willing.

⁴ And asked us with great instance to receive the grace and fellowship of the ministry which is toward the Saints.

⁵ And this they did, not as we expected; but gave themselves, first to the Lord, and afterwards to us, by the will of God;

⁶ that we should exhort Titus to accomplish the same grace among you which he had begun.

⁷ Therefore, as you abound in everything - in faith and Word and knowledge and in all diligence and in your love towards us - see that you also abound in this grace.