Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁷ For I endure scorn^(A) for your sake,^(B)
    and shame covers my face.^(C)
8 I am a foreigner to my own family,
    a stranger to my own mother’s children;^(D)
9 for zeal for your house consumes me,^(E)
    and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.^(F)
10 When I weep and fast,^(G)
    I must endure scorn;

¹¹ when I put on sackcloth,^(A)
    people make sport of me.
¹² Those who sit at the gate^(B) mock me,
    and I am the song of the drunkards.^(C)

¹³ But I pray to you, Lord,
    in the time of your favor;^(D)
in your great love,^(E) O God,
    answer me with your sure salvation.
¹⁴ Rescue me from the mire,
    do not let me sink;
deliver me from those who hate me,
    from the deep waters.^(F)
15 Do not let the floodwaters^(G) engulf me
    or the depths swallow me up^(H)
    or the pit close its mouth over me.^(I)

¹⁶ Answer me, Lord, out of the goodness of your love;^(A)
    in your great mercy turn to me.
¹⁷ Do not hide your face^(B) from your servant;
    answer me quickly,^(C) for I am in trouble.^(D)
18 Come near and rescue me;
    deliver^(E) me because of my foes.

“Inquire among the nations:
    Who has ever heard anything like this?^(C)
A most horrible^(D) thing has been done
    by Virgin^(E) Israel.
¹⁴ Does the snow of Lebanon
    ever vanish from its rocky slopes?
Do its cool waters from distant sources
    ever stop flowing?^[a]
15 Yet my people have forgotten^(F) me;
    they burn incense^(G) to worthless idols,^(H)
which made them stumble^(I) in their ways,
    in the ancient paths.^(J)
They made them walk in byways,
    on roads not built up.^(K)
16 Their land will be an object of horror^(L)
    and of lasting scorn;^(M)
all who pass by will be appalled^(N)
    and will shake their heads.^(O)
17 Like a wind^(P) from the east,
    I will scatter them before their enemies;
I will show them my back and not my face^(Q)
    in the day of their disaster.”

“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
    a son of man that you care for him?^(B)
7 You made them a little^[a] lower than the angels;
    you crowned them with glory and honor
⁸     and put everything under their feet.”^[b][c](C)