Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹ A psalm of thanksgiving.
Shout joyfully to Adonai, all the earth!
² Serve Adonai with gladness.
Come before His presence with joyful singing.
³ Know that Adonai, He is God.
It is He who has made us, and we are His.
We are His people, the sheep of His pasture.
⁴ Enter His gates with thanksgiving
    and His courts with praise!
Praise Him, bless His Name.
⁵ For Adonai is good.
His lovingkindness endures forever,
and His faithfulness to all generations.

50 The word that Adonai spoke about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:
² “Declare it among the nations and proclaim!
Raise a banner, announce, hide nothing!
Say: ‘Babylon will be captured,
Bel put to shame,
Merodach dismayed,
her images disgraced,
her idols shattered!’
³ For a nation comes up against her
out of the land of the north
—it will desolate her land.
No one will dwell there—
they have fled, gone, both man and beast.”

⁴ “In those days and at that time”
—it is a declaration of Adonai—
“the children of Israel will come,
together with the children of Judah,
weeping as they come,
and will seek Adonai their God.
⁵ They will ask about Zion, the way—
here are their faces! Come!
They will join themselves to Adonai
in an everlasting covenant
that will never be forgotten.^[a]
6 My people have been lost sheep.^[b]
Their shepherds led them astray.
Turning around in the mountains,
they went from mountain to hill,
and forgot their resting place.
⁷ Everyone finding them devoured them.
Their foes said: ‘We’re not guilty!’
Instead, they sinned against Adonai,
the habitation of justice—
Adonai, the hope of their fathers.”