Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

38 O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger
or chastise me in your wrath.
² For your arrows have sunk into me,
and your hand has pressed down on me.
³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation.
There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
⁴ For my iniquities have passed over my head;
like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
⁵ My wounds start to stink; they rot
because of my foolishness.
⁶ I am bowed down; I am bent over greatly.
All the day I go about mourning.
⁷ For my loins are full of burning,
and there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸ I am faint and crushed greatly;
I groan because of the roaring of my heart.
⁹ O Lord, all my longing is before you,
and my sighing is not hidden from you.
¹⁰ My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me;
and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.
¹¹ My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction,
and my relatives stand afar off.
¹² Those who seek my life lay snares as well,
and those intent on my harm speak threats.
They also plot deceit all day.
¹³ But as for me, like the deaf I cannot hear,
and I am like the mute who cannot open his mouth.
¹⁴ And so I am like a man who hears not,
and in whose mouth there are no retorts.
¹⁵ Rather for you I wait, O Yahweh.
You will answer, O Lord my God.
¹⁶ For I said, “Help, lest they rejoice over me,
lest they boast against me when my foot slips.”
¹⁷ For I am ready to stumble,
and my pain is before me continually.
¹⁸ For my iniquity I confess;
I am anxious because of my sin.
¹⁹ And my enemies without cause^[b] are numerous,
and those who hate me wrongfully^[c] are many.
²⁰ And those who repay evil in return for good
accuse me in return for my pursuing good.
²¹ Do not forsake me, O Yahweh.
O my God, do not be far from me.
²² Hurry to help me,
O Lord, my salvation.

4 And it will be that at the end of those days,
the mountain of Yahweh
    will be established as the highest of the mountains,
and it will be lifted up above the hills,
    and people will stream to it.
² And many nations will come and say,
“Come! Let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh,
    and to the temple^[a] of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways,
    and that we may walk in his paths,”
for the law will go out from Zion,
    and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.
³ And he will judge between many peoples
    and will arbitrate for strong nations far away;
and they will beat their swords into plowshares
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation will not lift up a sword against a nation,
    and they will no longer learn war.
⁴ But they will sit, each under his vine
    and under his fig tree,
and no one will make them afraid,
    for the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken.
⁵ For all the nations walk,
    each in the name of its god,
but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God,
    forever and ever.

⁶ “In that day,” declares Yahweh,^[b]
    “I will assemble the one who limps,
and I will gather the one who has been scattered,
    and those whom I have mistreated.
⁷ And I will make the one who limps a remnant,
    and the one driven far away a strong nation,
and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion
    from now to forever.