Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

38 ⁽⁰⁾ A psalm of David, serving as a reminder:

^2 (1) Adonai, don’t rebuke me when you are angry
or discipline me when you are enraged,
^3 (2) for your arrows penetrate me deeply,
and your hand is pressing me down.

^4 (3) Your indignation left no part of me intact;
my sin made my whole body sick;
^5 (4) for my iniquities loom high over my head
as a heavy burden, too heavy for me.

^6 (5) I have stinking, festering wounds
because of my foolishness.
^7 (6) I am bent down, prostrate completely;
I go about mourning all day long.

^8 (7) For my insides burn with fever,
and my whole body is sick.
^9 (8) I am numb, completely crushed;
my anguished heart makes me groan aloud.

^10 (9) Adonai, all my longing is known to you;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
^11 (10) My heart is throbbing, my strength is gone,
and the light in my eyes has left me.

^12 (11) My friends and companions shun my disease;
even the closest keep their distance.
^13 (12) Those seeking my life lay snares for me,
those seeking to harm me speak of disaster
and think up deceptions all day long.

^14 (13) But I’m like a deaf man — I don’t hear it;
and, like a mute, I don’t say a word.
^15 (14) Yes, I’ve become like a man who doesn’t hear
and in whose mouth are no defenses.

^16 (15) For it is in you, Adonai, that I hope.
You will answer, Adonai my God.
^17 (16) I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me
or boast against me when my foot slips.”

^18 (17) For I am about to fall,
and my pain is always with me.
^19 (18) I acknowledge my guilt,
I am anxious because of my sin.

^20 (19) But my enemies are alive and well,
those who wrongfully hate me increase their numbers;
^21 (20) and, since they repay good with evil,
they oppose me because I pursue good.

^22 (21) Don’t abandon me, Adonai!
My God, don’t be far from me!
^23 (22) Come quickly to help me,
Adonai, my salvation!

4 But in the acharit-hayamim it will come about
that the mountain of Adonai’s house
will be established as the most important mountain.
It will be regarded more highly than the other hills,
and peoples will stream there.
² Many Gentiles will go and say,
“Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Adonai,
to the house of the God of Ya‘akov!
He will teach us about his ways,
and we will walk in his paths.”
For out of Tziyon will go forth Torah,
the word of Adonai from Yerushalayim.
³ He will judge between many peoples
and arbitrate for many nations far away.
Then they will hammer their swords into plow-blades
and their spears into pruning-knives;
nations will not raise swords at each other,
and they will no longer learn war.
⁴ Instead, each person will sit under his vine
and fig tree, with no one to upset him,
for the mouth of Adonai-Tzva’ot
has spoken.
⁵ For all the peoples will walk,
each in the name of its god;
but we will walk in the name of Adonai
our God forever and ever.

⁶ “When that day comes,” says Adonai,
“I will assemble the lame
and gather those who were dispersed,
along with those I afflicted.
⁷ I will make the lame a remnant
and those who were driven off a strong nation.”

Adonai will rule them on Mount Tziyon
from that time forth and forever.