Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²⁴ How many are your works, O Yahweh;
all of them you have done in wisdom.
The earth is full of your creatures.
²⁵ This is the great and wide^[a] sea,
in which are moving animals without number,
living things small and great.
²⁶ There the ships sail.
Leviathan is there that you formed to play with.^[b]
27 They all wait for you
to give them their food at the proper time.^[c]
28 You give to them; they gather it.
You open your hand, they are filled with what is good.
²⁹ You hide your face, they are terrified.
You take away their breath, they die
and return to their dust.
³⁰ You send forth your Spirit,^[d] they are created,
and you renew the face of the ground.
³¹ May the glory of Yahweh endure forever.
May Yahweh be glad in his works,
³² the one who looks at the earth and it quakes,
and touches the mountains and they smoke.
³³ I will sing to Yahweh throughout my life;
I will sing praise to my God while I remain alive.^[e]
34 May my meditation be pleasing to him.
I will be glad in Yahweh.

³⁵ Let sinners perish completely from the earth,
and the wicked not remain alive.^[a]
Bless Yahweh, O my soul.
Praise Yah.^[b]

44 “But now hear, Jacob my servant,
    and Israel, whom I have chosen.
² Thus says Yahweh, who made you,
    and who formed you in^[a] the womb and will help you:
you must not fear, my servant Jacob,
    and Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
³ For I will pour out water on a thirsty land
    and streams on dry ground.
I will pour my spirit out on your descendants^[b]
    and my blessing on your offspring.
⁴ And they shall sprout among^[c] the grass
    like willows by a watercourse of water.