Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²⁴ O Lord, how manifold are your works!
    In ^(A)wisdom have you made them all;
    the earth is full of your creatures.
²⁵ Here is the sea, great and wide,
    ^(B)which teems with creatures innumerable,
    living things both small and great.
²⁶ There go the ships,
    and ^(C)Leviathan, which you formed to ^(D)play in it.^[a]
27 These ^(E)all look to you,
    to ^(F)give them their food in due season.
²⁸ When you give it to them, they gather it up;
    when you ^(G)open your hand, they are filled with good things.
²⁹ When you ^(H)hide your face, they are ^(I)dismayed;
    when you ^(J)take away their breath, they die
    and ^(K)return to their dust.
³⁰ When you ^(L)send forth your Spirit,^[b] they are created,
    and you ^(M)renew the face of the ground.
³¹ May the glory of the Lord ^(N)endure for ever;
    may the Lord ^(O)rejoice in his works,
³² who looks on the earth and it ^(P)trembles,
    who ^(Q)touches the mountains and they smoke!
³³ I will sing to the Lord ^(R)as long as I live;
    I will sing praise to my God while I have being.
³⁴ May my ^(S)meditation be pleasing to him,
    for I rejoice in the Lord.

³⁵ Let ^(A)sinners be consumed from the earth,
    and let the wicked be no more!
^(B)Bless the Lord, O my soul!
^(C)Praise the Lord!

^18 (A)Then the Lord became jealous for his land
    ^(B)and had pity on his people.
¹⁹ The Lord answered and said to his people,
“Behold, ^(C)I am sending to you
    grain, wine, and oil,
    ^(D)and you will be satisfied;
and I will no more make you
    a reproach among the nations.
²⁰ “I will remove the northerner far from you,
    and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard^[a] into ^(E)the eastern sea,
    and his rearguard^[b] into ^(F)the western sea;
^(G)the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
    for he has done great things.
²¹ “Fear not, O land;
    be glad and rejoice,
    for ^(H)the Lord has done great things!
²² Fear not, ^(I)you beasts of the field,
    for ^(J)the pastures of the wilderness are green;
^(K)the tree bears its fruit;
    the fig tree and ^(L)vine give their full yield.
^23 (M)“Be glad, O children of Zion,
    and ^(N)rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given ^(O)the early rain for your vindication;
    he has poured down for you abundant rain,
    ^(P)the early and ^(Q)the latter rain, as before.
²⁴ “The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
    the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
²⁵ I will restore to you the years
    that ^(R)the swarming locust has eaten,
^(S)the hopper, ^(T)the destroyer, and ^(U)the cutter,
    ^(V)my great army, which I sent among you.
^26 (W)“You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
    and praise the name of the Lord your God,
    who has dealt wondrously with you.
And my people ^(X)shall never again be put to shame.
^27 (Y)You shall know that I am ^(Z)in the midst of Israel,
    and that ^(AA)I am the Lord your God ^(AB)and there is none else.
And my people ^(AC)shall never again be put to shame.

^{28 [c] (AD)}“And it shall come to pass afterwards,
    that ^(AE)I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
^(AF)your sons and ^(AG)your daughters shall prophesy,
    your old men shall dream dreams,
    and your young men shall see visions.
^29 (AH)Even on the male and female servants
    in those days I will pour out my Spirit.