Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁷ For it is ^(A)for your sake that I have borne reproach,
    that dishonour has covered my face.
⁸ I have become ^(B)a stranger to my brothers,
    an alien to my mother's sons.
⁹ For ^(C)zeal for your house has consumed me,
    and ^(D)the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
¹⁰ When I wept and humbled^[a] my soul with fasting,
    it became my reproach.

¹¹ When I made ^(A)sackcloth my clothing,
    I became ^(B)a byword to them.
¹² I am the talk of those who ^(C)sit in the gate,
    and the drunkards make ^(D)songs about me.
¹³ But as for me, my ^(E)prayer is to you, O Lord.
    At ^(F)an acceptable time, O God,
    in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
¹⁴ Deliver me
    from sinking in ^(G)the mire;
^(H)let me be delivered from my enemies
    and from ^(I)the deep waters.
¹⁵ Let not the flood sweep over me,
    or the deep swallow me up,
    or ^(J)the pit close ^(K)its mouth over me.

¹⁶ Answer me, O Lord, for your ^(A)steadfast love is good;
    according to your abundant ^(B)mercy, ^(C)turn to me.
^17 (D)Hide not your face from your servant;
    ^(E)for I am in distress; ^(F)make haste to answer me.
¹⁸ Draw near to my soul, redeem me;
    ransom me because of my enemies!

¹³ “Therefore thus says the Lord:
^(C)Ask among the nations,
    Who has heard the like of this?
The virgin Israel
    has done ^(D)a very horrible thing.
¹⁴ Does the snow of Lebanon leave
    the crags of Sirion?^[a]
Do the mountain waters run dry,^[b]
    the cold flowing streams?
^15 (E)But my people have forgotten me;
    they make offerings to ^(F)false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
    ^(G)in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
    ^(H)not the highway,
¹⁶ making their land ^(I)a horror,
    a thing ^(J)to be hissed at for ever.
^(K)Everyone who passes by it is horrified
    ^(L)and shakes his head.
^17 (M)Like the east wind ^(N)I will scatter them
    before the enemy.
^(O)I will show them my back, not my face,
    in the day of their calamity.”

^(B)“What is man, that you are mindful of him,
    or the son of man, that you care for him?
⁷ You made him for a little while lower than the angels;
    you have crowned him with glory and honour,^[a]
8     putting everything in subjection under his feet.”