Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

146 ^(A)Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
² I will praise the Lord ^(B)as long as I live;
    ^(C)I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
^3 (D)Put not your trust in princes,
    ^(E)in a son of man, in whom there is ^(F)no salvation.
⁴ When ^(G)his breath departs, he returns to the earth;
    on that very day his plans perish.
^5 (H)Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
    whose ^(I)hope is in the Lord his God,
^6 (J)who made heaven and earth,
    the sea, and all that is in them,
^(K)who keeps faith for ever;
^{7     (L)}who executes justice for the oppressed,
    ^(M)who gives food to the hungry.
^(N)The Lord sets the prisoners free;
^{8     (O)}the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
^(P)The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
    ^(Q)the Lord loves the righteous.
^9 (R)The Lord watches over the sojourners;
    ^(S)he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
    but ^(T)the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
^10 (U)The Lord will reign for ever,
    your God, O Zion, to all generations.
^(V)Praise the Lord!

¹⁴ For a long time I have held my peace;
    I have kept still and restrained myself;
now I will cry out ^(A)like a woman in labour;
    I will gasp and pant.
^15 (B)I will lay waste mountains and hills,
    and dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn the rivers into islands,^[a]
    and dry up the pools.
^16 (C)And I will lead the blind
    in a way that they do not know,
in paths that they have not known
    I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light,
    ^(D)the rough places into level ground.
These are the things I do,
    and I do not forsake them.
^17 (E)They are turned back and utterly put to shame,
    who trust in carved idols,
who say to metal images,
    “You are our gods.”

¹⁸ Hear, you deaf,
    and look, you blind, that you may see!
¹⁹ Who is blind but my servant,
    or deaf as my messenger whom I send?
Who is blind as my dedicated one,^[b]
    or blind as the servant of the Lord?
^20 (F)He sees many things, but does not observe them;
    ^(G)his ears are open, but he does not hear.
²¹ The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness' sake,
    to magnify his law and make it glorious.