Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁹ For you have made Elyon your dwelling,
    even Adonai, who is my refuge,
¹⁰ so no evil will befall you
    nor any plague come near your tent.
¹¹ For He will give His angels charge over you,
to guard you in all your ways.
¹² Upon their hands they will lift you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.^[a]
13 You will tread upon the lion and cobra,
trample the young lion and serpent.

¹⁰ You felt secure in your wickedness,
You said, “No one sees me.”
Your wisdom and your knowledge
    led you astray,
so you have said in your heart,
“I am—there is no one else beside me!”
¹¹ But calamity will come upon you.
You won’t know how to charm it away.
Disaster will fall on you,
    for which you cannot atone.
Catastrophe you cannot foresee
    will suddenly come upon you.
¹² Stand fast in your enchantments
and your many sorceries,
which you have toiled over since your youth.
Perhaps you will succeed?
Perhaps you will cause terror?
¹³ You are weary of your consultations.
So many!
So let the astrologers, star-gazers, predicting by new moons,
    stand up and save you from what will come upon you.
¹⁴ Behold, they shall be as stubble.
Fire will consume them.
They cannot deliver themselves
    from the power of the flame!
It is not a coal for warming by
    or a fire to sit before!
¹⁵ So much have they become to you,
with whom you have toiled,
trafficking with you from your youth,
each wandering about his own way.
No one will save you!