Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹ Halleluyah! Praise Adonai, O my soul!
² I will praise Adonai all my life.
I will praise my God yet again.
³ Do not put your trust in princes—
in man, in whom there is no salvation.
⁴ His breath departs,
he returns to his dust.
In that very day his plans perish.
⁵ Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in Adonai his God,
⁶ who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
who keeps truth forever,
⁷ who executes justice for the oppressed,
who gives bread to the hungry.
Adonai sets the prisoners free.
⁸ Adonai opens the eyes of the blind.^[a]
Adonai raises up those who are bowed down.
Adonai loves the righteous.
⁹ Adonai protects outsiders,
upholds the fatherless and the widow,
but thwarts the way of the wicked.
¹⁰ Adonai will reign forever,
your God, O Zion, from generation to generation.
Halleluyah!

32 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness
and princes will rule in justice.
² Each will be like a refuge from the wind
and a shelter from the storm,
like streams of water in a dry place,
like the shade of a massive rock in a weary land.
³ Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed,
and the ears of those who hear will pay attention.
⁴ The heart of the hasty will understand knowledge,
and the tongue of stammerers will speak fluently, clearly.
⁵ No longer will a fool be called noble,
or a scoundrel said to be a gentleman.
⁶ For the fool speaks foolishness
and his heart works wickedness,
to practice ungodliness,
and speak error about Adonai,
to deprive the hungry of food
and withhold drink from the thirsty.
⁷ The scoundrel’s methods are evil—
he makes up wicked schemes
    to destroy the poor with lies,
even when the plea of the needy is just.
⁸ But the noble devises noble plans,
and for noble causes he stands.