Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³ As for ^(D)the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,
    in whom is all my delight.^[b]

⁴ The sorrows of those who run after^[c] another god shall multiply;
    their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out
    or ^(E)take their names on my lips.

⁵ The Lord is ^(F)my chosen portion and my ^(G)cup;
    you hold my ^(H)lot.
^6 (I)The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
    indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.

⁷ I bless the Lord who ^(J)gives me counsel;
    in ^(K)the night also my ^(L)heart instructs me.^[d]
8 (M)I have ^(N)set the Lord always before me;
    because he is at my ^(O)right hand, I shall not be ^(P)shaken.

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad, and my ^(Q)whole being^[e] rejoices;
    my flesh also dwells secure.
¹⁰ For you will not abandon my soul to ^(R)Sheol,
    ^(S)or let your ^(T)holy one see ^(U)corruption.^[f]

¹¹ You make known to me ^(V)the path of life;
    in your presence there is ^(W)fullness of joy;
    at your right hand are ^(X)pleasures forevermore.

¹⁵ “But ^(A)Jeshurun grew fat, and ^(B)kicked;
    ^(C)you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
^(D)then he forsook God ^(E)who made him
    and scoffed at ^(F)the Rock of his salvation.
^16 (G)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
    with abominations they provoked him to anger.
^17 (H)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
    to gods they had never known,
to ^(I)new gods that had come recently,
    whom your fathers had never dreaded.
¹⁸ You were unmindful of ^(J)the Rock that bore^[a] you,
    and you ^(K)forgot the God who gave you birth.

^19 (L)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
    because of the provocation of ^(M)his sons and his daughters.
²⁰ And he said, ^(N)‘I will hide my face from them;
    I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
    children in whom is no faithfulness.
^21 (O)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
    they have provoked me to anger ^(P)with their idols.
So ^(Q)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
    I will provoke them to anger with ^(R)a foolish nation.
²² For ^(S)a fire is kindled by my anger,
    and it burns to ^(T)the depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
    and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

²³ “‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
    ^(U)I will spend my arrows on them;
²⁴ they shall be wasted with hunger,
    and devoured by plague
    and poisonous pestilence;
I will send ^(V)the teeth of beasts against them,
    with the venom of ^(W)things that crawl in the dust.
^25 (X)Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
    and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
    the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
^26 (Y)I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
    ^(Z)I will wipe them from human memory,”
²⁷ had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
    lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, ^(AA)“Our hand is triumphant,
    it was not the Lord who did all this.”’

³⁹ “‘See now that ^(A)I, even I, am he,
    and there is no god beside me;
^(B)I kill and I make alive;
    ^(C)I wound and I heal;
    and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
⁴⁰ For ^(D)I lift up my hand to heaven
    and swear, As I live forever,
⁴¹ if I ^(E)sharpen my flashing sword^[a]
    and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
    and will repay those who hate me.
⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
    and ^(F)my sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
    from the ^(G)long-haired heads of the enemy.’

^43 (H)“Rejoice with him, O heavens;^[b]
    bow down to him, all gods,^[c]
for he ^(I)avenges the blood of his children^[d]
    and takes vengeance on his adversaries.
He repays those who hate him^[e]
    and cleanses^[f] his people's land.”^[g]