Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²⁰ The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;
    according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.^(A)
21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord
    and have not wickedly departed from my God.^(B)
22 For all his ordinances were before me,
    and his statutes I did not put away from me.^(C)
23 I was blameless before him,
    and I kept myself from guilt.
²⁴ Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
    according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.^(D)

²⁵ With the loyal you show yourself loyal;
    with the blameless you show yourself blameless;^(E)
26 with the pure you show yourself pure;
    and with the crooked you show yourself shrewd.^(F)
27 For you deliver a humble people,
    but the haughty eyes you bring down.^(G)
28 It is you who light my lamp;
    the Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.^(H)
29 By you I can outrun a troop,
    and by my God I can leap over a wall.^(I)
30 This God—his way is perfect;
    the promise of the Lord proves true;
    he is a shield for all who take refuge in him.^(J)

³¹ For who is God except the Lord?
    And who is a rock besides our God?^(K)
32 The God who has girded me with strength
    and made my way safe.^[a]

¹⁹ The Lord saw it and was jealous;^[b]
    he spurned^[c] his sons and daughters.^(B)
20 He said, ‘I will hide my face from them;
    I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
    children in whom there is no faithfulness.^(C)

²⁸ They are a nation void of sense;
    there is no understanding in them.
²⁹ If they were wise, they would understand this;
    they would discern what their end would be.^(A)
30 How could one have routed a thousand
    and two put a myriad to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
    the Lord had given them up?^(B)
31 Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock;
    our enemies are fools.^[a](C)
32 Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom,
    from the vineyards of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of poison;
    their clusters are bitter;
³³ their wine is the poison of serpents,
    the cruel venom of asps.^(D)

³⁴ Is not this laid up in store with me,
    sealed up in my treasuries,^(E)
35 for the day of vengeance^[b] and recompense,
    for the time when their foot shall slip?
Because the day of their calamity is at hand;
    their doom comes swiftly.^(F)

³⁶ Indeed, the Lord will vindicate his people,
    have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone,
    neither bond nor free remaining.^(G)
37 Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods,
    the rock in which they took refuge,^(H)
38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their libations?
Let them rise up and help you;
    let them be your protection!

³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he;
    there is no god besides me.
I kill, and I make alive;
    I wound, and I heal;
    and no one can deliver from my hand.^(I)

³⁴ “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?”^(B)
35 “Or who has given a gift to him,
    to receive a gift in return?”