Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹ I will honor you highly, O Yahweh,
    because you have pulled me out of the pit
        and have not let my enemies rejoice over me.
² O Yahweh my Elohim,
    I cried out to you for help,
        and you healed me.
³ O Yahweh, you brought me up from the grave.
    You called me back to life
        from among those who had gone into the pit.
⁴ Make music to praise Yahweh, you faithful people who belong to him.
    Remember his holiness by giving thanks.
⁵ His anger lasts only a moment.
    His favor lasts a lifetime.
    Weeping may last for the night,
        but there is a song of joy in the morning.

¹⁸ The hearts of Jerusalem’s people
    cried out to Adonay, the wall of Zion’s people.
        Let your tears run down like a river day and night.
            Don’t let them stop.
                Don’t let your eyes rest.
¹⁹ Get up! Cry out at night, every hour on the hour.
    Pour your heart out like water in the presence of Adonay.
        Lift up your hands to him in prayer
            for the life of your little children
                who faint from hunger at every street corner.”

²⁰ “O Yahweh, look and consider:
    Have you ever treated anyone like this?
        Should women eat their own children,
            the children they have nursed?
        Should priests and prophets be killed in Adonay’s holy place?
²¹ Young and old lie on the ground in the streets.
    My young women and men are cut down by swords.
    You killed them on the day of your anger.
    You slaughtered them without any pity.
²² You have invited those who terrorize me on every side,
    as though they were invited to a festival.
    No one escaped or survived on the day of Yahweh’s anger.
    My enemy has murdered the children I nursed and raised.”