Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

3 O Lord, ^(B)how many are my foes!
    Many are ^(C)rising against me;
² many are saying of my soul,
    ^(D)there is no salvation for him in God. Selah^[a]
3 But you, O Lord, are ^(E)a shield ^(F)about me,
    my glory, and ^(G)the lifter of my head.
⁴ I ^(H)cried aloud to the Lord,
    and he ^(I)answered me from his ^(J)holy hill. Selah
⁵ I ^(K)lay down and slept;
    I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
⁶ I ^(L)will not be afraid of many thousands of people
    who have ^(M)set themselves against me all round.
^7 (N)Arise, O Lord!
    Save me, O my God!
For you ^(O)strike all my enemies on the cheek;
    you ^(P)break the teeth of the wicked.
^8 (Q)Salvation belongs to the Lord;
    your blessing be on your people! Selah

^5 (A)“Look among the nations, and see;
    wonder and be astounded.
^(B)For I am doing a work in your days
    that you would not believe if told.
⁶ For behold, ^(C)I am raising up the Chaldeans,
    that bitter and hasty nation,
^(D)who march through the breadth of the earth,
    ^(E)to seize dwellings not their own.
⁷ They are dreaded and fearsome;
    ^(F)their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
^8 (G)Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    more fierce than ^(H)the evening wolves;
    their horsemen press proudly on.
Their horsemen come from afar;
    ^(I)they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
⁹ They all come ^(J)for violence,
    all their faces forward.
    They gather captives ^(K)like sand.
¹⁰ At kings they scoff,
    and at rulers they laugh.
^(L)They laugh at every fortress,
    for ^(M)they pile up earth and take it.
¹¹ Then they sweep by like the wind and go on,
    ^(N)guilty men, ^(O)whose own might is their god!”

¹² Are you not ^(P)from everlasting,
    O Lord my God, my Holy One?
    ^(Q)We shall not die.
O Lord, ^(R)you have ordained them as a judgement,
    and you, O ^(S)Rock, have established them for reproof.
¹³ You who are ^(T)of purer eyes than to see evil
    and cannot look at wrong,
^(U)why do you idly look at traitors
    and ^(V)remain silent when the wicked swallows up
    the man more righteous than he?
¹⁴ You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
    like crawling things that have no ruler.
^15 (W)He brings all of them up ^(X)with a hook;
    he drags them out with his net;
he gathers them in his dragnet;
    so he rejoices and is glad.
^16 (Y)Therefore he sacrifices to his net
    and makes offerings to his dragnet;
for by them he lives in luxury,^[a]
    and his food is rich.
¹⁷ Is he then to keep on emptying his net
    ^(Z)and mercilessly killing nations for ever?