Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

^6 (A)In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted,
    but you have given me an open ^(B)ear.^[a]
Burnt offering and sin offering
    you have not required.
⁷ Then I said, “Behold, I have come;
    in the scroll of the book it is written ^(C)of me:
^8 (D)I delight to do your will, O my God;
    your law is ^(E)within my heart.”
⁹ I have told the glad news of deliverance^[b]
    in ^(F)the great congregation;
behold, I have not ^(G)restrained my lips,
    ^(H)as you know, O Lord.
¹⁰ I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart;
    I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;
I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness
    from the great congregation.
¹¹ As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain
    your mercy from me;
your ^(I)steadfast love and your faithfulness will
    ever preserve me!
¹² For evils have ^(J)encompassed me
    beyond number;
my ^(K)iniquities have overtaken me,
    and I cannot ^(L)see;
they are ^(M)more than the hairs of my head;
    my heart ^(N)fails me.
^13 (O)Be pleased, O Lord, to ^(P)deliver me!
    O Lord, ^(Q)make haste to help me!
^14 (R)Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether
    who seek to snatch away my life;
let those be ^(S)turned back and brought to dishonour
    who delight in my hurt!
¹⁵ Let those be appalled because of their shame
    who ^(T)say to me, “Aha, Aha!”
¹⁶ But may all who seek you
    rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who love your salvation
    ^(U)say continually, “Great is the Lord!”
¹⁷ As for me, I am ^(V)poor and needy,
    but ^(W)the Lord takes thought for me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
    do not delay, O my God!

¹² “Listen to me, O Jacob,
    and Israel, whom I called!
I am he; ^(A)I am the first,
    and I am the last.
¹³ My hand ^(B)laid the foundation of the earth,
    and my right hand ^(C)spread out the heavens;
^(D)when I call to them,
    they stand forth together.
¹⁴ “Assemble, all of you, and listen!
    ^(E)Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him;
    ^(F)he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,
    and his arm shall be against ^(G)the Chaldeans.
^15 (H)I, even I, have spoken and called him;
    I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
^16 (I)Draw near to me, hear this:
    from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,
    from the time it came to be I have been there.”
And now ^(J)the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.
¹⁷ Thus says the Lord,
    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
    who teaches you to profit,
    who leads you in the way you should go.
^18 (K)Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
    ^(L)Then your peace would have been like a river,
    and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
^19 (M)your offspring would have been like the sand,
    and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
    or destroyed from before me.”
^20 (N)Go out from Babylon, flee from ^(O)Chaldea,
    declare this ^(P)with a shout of joy, proclaim it,
send it out to the end of the earth;
    say, ^(Q)“The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
^21 (R)They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;
    ^(S)he made water flow for them from the rock;
    he split the rock and the water gushed out.