Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹ How lovely is your dwelling place,
Lord of Armies.^(B)
2 I long and yearn
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh cry out for^[a] the living God.^(C)

² Judah mourns;
her city gates languish.^(B)
Her people are on the ground in mourning;
Jerusalem’s cry rises up.^(C)
3 Their nobles send their servants^[a] for water.
They go to the cisterns;
they find no water;
their containers return empty.
They are ashamed and humiliated;
they cover their heads.^(D)
4 The ground is cracked
since no rain has fallen on the land.
The farmers are ashamed;^(E)
they cover their heads.
⁵ Even the doe in the field
gives birth and abandons her fawn
since there is no grass.
⁶ Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights^(F)
panting for air like jackals.
Their eyes fail
because there are no green plants.

My soul magnifies the Lord,^(A)
47 and my spirit rejoices^(B) in God my Savior,^(C)
48 because he has looked with favor
on the humble condition of his servant.
Surely, from now on all generations
will call me blessed,^(D)
49 because the Mighty One^(E)
has done great things for me,^(F)
and his name^(G) is holy.
⁵⁰ His mercy is from generation to generation^(H)
on those who fear him.
⁵¹ He has done a mighty deed with his arm;^(I)
he has scattered the proud
because of the thoughts of their hearts;^(J)
52 he has toppled the mighty from their thrones
and exalted the lowly.^(K)
53 He has satisfied the hungry with good things^(L)
and sent the rich away empty.
⁵⁴ He has helped his servant Israel,
remembering his mercy
⁵⁵ to Abraham and his descendants^[a] forever,^(M)
just as he spoke to our ancestors.