Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²⁴ What variety there is in your works, Adonai!
How many [of them there are]!
In wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your creations.

²⁵ Look at the sea, so great, so wide!
It teems with countless creatures,
living beings, both large and small.
²⁶ The ships are there, sailing to and fro;
Livyatan, which you formed to play there.

²⁷ All of them look to you
to give them their food when they need it.
²⁸ When you give it to them, they gather it;
when you open your hand, they are well satisfied.
²⁹ If you hide your face, they vanish;
if you hold back their breath, they perish
and return to their dust.
³⁰ If you send out your breath, they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth.
³¹ May the glory of Adonai last forever!
May Adonai rejoice in his works!
³² When he looks at the earth, it trembles;
when he touches the mountains, they pour out smoke.
³³ I will sing to Adonai as long as I live,
sing praise to my God all my life.
³⁴ May my musings be pleasing to him;
I will rejoice in Adonai.

Halleluyah!

¹⁸ Then Adonai will become jealous for his land
and have pity on his people.
¹⁹ Here is how Adonai will answer his people:
“I will send you grain, wine and olive oil,
enough to satisfy you;
and no longer will I make you
a mockery among the Goyim.
²⁰ No, I will take the northerner away,
far away from you,
and drive him to a land
that is waste and barren;
with his vanguard toward the eastern sea
and his rearguard toward the western sea,
his stench and his rottenness will rise,
because he has done great things.”

²¹ Don’t fear, O soil; be glad! rejoice!
for Adonai has done great things.
²² Don’t be afraid, wild animals;
for the desert pastures are green,
the trees are putting out their fruit,
the fig tree and vine are giving full yield.
²³ Be glad, people of Tziyon!
rejoice in Adonai your God!
For he is giving you
the right amount of rain in the fall,
he makes the rain come down for you,
the fall and spring rains — this is what he does first.
²⁴ Then the floors will be full of grain
and the vats overflow with wine and olive oil.

²⁵ “I will restore to you the years that the locusts ate,
the grasshoppers, shearer-worms and cutter-worms,
my great army that I sent against you.
²⁶ You will eat until you are satisfied
and will praise the name of Adonai your God,
who has done with you such wonders.
Then my people will never again be shamed.
²⁷ You will know that I am with Isra’el
and that I am Adonai your God,
and that there is no other.
Then my people will never again be shamed.