Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

20 May the Lord ^(A)answer you in the day of trouble!
    May ^(B)the name of the God of Jacob ^(C)protect you!
² May he send you help from ^(D)the sanctuary
    and give you support from ^(E)Zion!
³ May he ^(F)remember all your offerings
    and regard with favour your burnt sacrifices! Selah
⁴ May he ^(G)grant you your heart's desire
    and fulfil all your plans!
⁵ May we shout for joy over ^(H)your salvation,
    and in the name of our God set up our ^(I)banners!
May the Lord fulfil all your petitions!
⁶ Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed;
    he will answer him from his holy heaven
    with ^(J)the saving might of his right hand.
⁷ Some trust in ^(K)chariots and some in ^(L)horses,
    ^(M)but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
⁸ They collapse and fall,
    but we rise and stand upright.
⁹ O Lord, save ^(N)the king!
    May he answer us when we call.

“We have a strong city;
    he sets up ^(B)salvation
    as walls and bulwarks.
^2 (C)Open the gates,
    that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
^3 (D)You keep him in perfect peace
    whose mind is stayed on you,
    because he trusts in you.
⁴ Trust in the Lord for ever,
    for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
^5 (E)For he has humbled
    the inhabitants of the height,
    the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
    casts it to the dust.
⁶ The foot tramples it,
    the feet of ^(F)the poor,
    the steps of ^(G)the needy.”
⁷ The path of the righteous is level;
    ^(H)you make level the way of the righteous.
⁸ In the path of your judgements,
    O Lord, we wait for you;
^(I)your name and ^(J)remembrance
    are the desire of our soul.
⁹ My soul yearns for you in the night;
    my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
^(K)For when your judgements are in the earth,
    the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.