Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

30 I will exalt you, O Yahweh,
because you have drawn me up,
and have not made my enemies rejoice over me.
² O Yahweh, my God,
I cried for help to you,
and you healed me.
³ O Yahweh, you have brought my life up from Sheol.
You preserved me alive
from among those going down ^[c] to the pit.
⁴ Sing praises to Yahweh, you his faithful ones,
and give thanks to his holy fame.^[d]
5 For there is a moment in his anger;
there is a lifetime in his favor.
Weeping lodges for the evening,
but in the morning comes rejoicing.
⁶ But as for me, I had said in my prosperity,
“I shall not be moved ever.”
⁷ O Yahweh, by your favor
you caused my strong mountain to stand.
You hid your face. I was bewildered.
⁸ To you, O Yahweh, I called,
and to the Lord I pleaded for grace saying,
⁹ “What gain is there in my death,^[e]
in my going down into the pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
¹⁰ “O Yahweh, hear and be gracious to me.
O Yahweh, be my helper.”
¹¹ You have turned my wailing into my dancing.
You have removed my sackcloth
and clothed me with joy
¹² so that I^[f] may sing praises to you
and not be quiet.
O Yahweh, my God,
I will give thanks to you forever.

2 How, in his anger,^[a]
the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud!
He has thrown down from heavens to earth
    the splendor of Israel,
and he has not remembered his footstool
    in the day of his anger.^[b]
2 The Lord has devoured; he has not shown mercy
    to all the dwellings of Jacob;
he has broken down in his wrath
    the fortifications of the daughter of Judah;
he has leveled to the ground, he has dishonored
    the kingdom and its commanders.^[c]
3 He has cut down in fierce anger^[d]
    all the might of Israel;
he has withdrawn his right hand
    from the faces of the enemy,
and he has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire,
    it has consumed all around.
⁴ He has bent his bow like an enemy;
    he has set his right hand
like a foe, and he has slain
    all the treasures of the eye;^[e]
in the tent of the daughter of Zion,
    he has poured out his anger like fire.
⁵ The Lord has become like an enemy;
    he has destroyed Israel;
he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses;^[f]
    he has ruined all its fortifications
and multiplied lamentation and mourning
    in the daughter of Judah.
⁶ He has broken down his dwelling^[g] place like the garden;
    he has ruined his appointed feasts;
Yahweh has made them forget in Zion
    festival^[h] and Sabbath,
and he has despised in his anger
    king and priest.
⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar;
    he has rejected his sanctuary;
he has delivered into the hands of the enemy
    the walls of its citadel fortresses.^[i]
They have cried out in the house of Yahweh
    like a day of an appointed feast.
⁸ Yahweh has planned to destroy
    the wall of the daughter of Zion.
He measured with a line; he has not restrained
    his hand from destroying;
he caused rampart and wall to mourn;
    together they have languished away.
⁹ Her gates have sunk into the earth;
    he has ruined and broken her bars,
her kings and its princes are among the nations;
    there is no more law.^[j]
Also, her prophets have not found
    a revelation from Yahweh.
¹⁰ They sit on the ground,
    the elders of the daughter of Zion are silent.
They cast dust on their head,
    they have put on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
    have bowed their head down to the ground.
¹¹ My eyes have spent all their tears;^[k]
    my stomach^[l] is in torment,
my heart^[m] is poured out on the earth
    because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
because child and babe faint
    in the public squares of a city.
¹² To their mothers they say,
    “Where is the bread and wine?”
as they faint like the wounded
    in the public squares of a city,
as their life is being poured out
    onto the bosom of their mothers.