Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁹ You pulled out a vine from Egypt.
You drove out nations and planted it.
¹⁰ You cleared a place for it,
    and it took deep root and filled the land.
¹¹ The mountains were covered by its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches.
¹² It sent out its branches to the sea,
and its shoots to the river.
¹³ Why have You broken down its fences,
so all who pass by the way pick its fruit?
¹⁴ A boar from the forest ravages it,
whatever moves in the field feeds on it.
¹⁵ Elohei-Tzva’ot, please return!
Look down from heaven and see!
Now take care of this vine—

³⁰ “In vain I struck your children.
        They took no correction.
    Your sword devoured your prophets
        like a ravaging lion.”
³¹ You, generation, heed Adonai’s word!
    “Have I been a wilderness to Israel
        or a land of thick darkness?
    Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam.
        We won’t come to You any more’?
³² Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
        or a bride her attire?
    Yet My people have forgotten Me,
        days without number.
³³ How clever are your ways of seeking love.
    Therefore you even taught wicked women your ways.
³⁴ Moreover on your skirts is found
    the blood of the innocent poor
    —you did not find them breaking in.
    Yet in spite of all these things,
³⁵ you say, ‘I am innocent—
        surely His anger is turned away from me?’
        See, I will pass judgment on you,
        since you say: ‘I haven’t sinned!’
³⁶ Why do you make light of
        changing your way?
    You will be put to shame by Egypt
    as you were put to shame by Assyria.
³⁷ You will also go out from there
    with your hands on your head.
For Adonai has rejected those in whom you trust—
    you will not prosper by them.”