Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

32 Happy is he whose transgression is taken away,
whose sin is covered.
² Happy is a person to whom Yahweh does not impute iniquity
and in whose spirit there is not deceit.
³ When I kept silent, my bones were worn out
due to my groaning all the day.
⁴ For day and night your hand was heavy upon me.
My vigor was changed into the dry heat of summer. Selah
⁵ I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover.
I said, “I will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh,”
and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah
⁶ Therefore let all the faithful pray to you
at the time for finding you.
Surely at the flood of many waters they will not reach him.
⁷ You are my hiding place;
from trouble you preserve me.
With cries of deliverance you surround me. Selah

² Hear, heavens,
    and listen, earth,
        for Yahweh has spoken:
“I reared children
    and I brought them up,
        but they rebelled against me.
³ An ox knows its owner
    and a donkey the manger of its master.
Israel does not know;
    my people do not understand.
⁴ Ah, sinful nation,
    a people heavy with iniquity,
offspring of evildoers,
    children who deal corruptly.
They have forsaken Yahweh;
    they have despised the holy one of Israel.
        They are estranged and gone backward.
⁵ Why do you want to be beaten again?
    You continue in rebellion.
The whole of the head is sick,
    and the whole of the heart is faint.
⁶ From the sole of the foot and up to the head
    there is no health in it;
bruise and sore and bleeding wound have not been cleansed,
    and they have not been bound up
    and not softened with the oil.
⁷ Your country is desolate,
    your cities are burned with fire;
As for your land, aliens are devouring it in your presence,
    and it is desolate, like devastation by foreigners.
⁸ And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard,
    like a shelter in a cucumber field,
    like a city that is besieged.^[a]
9 If Yahweh of hosts had not left us survivors,^[b]
    we would have been as few as Sodom,
    we would have become like Gomorrah.