Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

18 I love you, O Lord, my strength.
² The Lord is my ^(D)rock and my ^(E)fortress and my deliverer,
    my God, my ^(F)rock, in ^(G)whom I take refuge,
    my ^(H)shield, and ^(I)the horn of my salvation, my ^(J)stronghold.
³ I call upon the Lord, who is ^(K)worthy to be praised,
    and I am saved from my enemies.

²⁰ The Lord dealt with me ^(A)according to my righteousness;
    according to ^(B)the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
²¹ For I have ^(C)kept the ways of the Lord,
    and have not wickedly departed from my God.
²² For ^(D)all his rules^[a] were before me,
    and his statutes I did not put away from me.
²³ I was ^(E)blameless before him,
    and I kept myself from my guilt.
²⁴ So the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
    according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
²⁵ With ^(F)the merciful you show yourself merciful;
    with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;
²⁶ with the purified you show yourself pure;
    and with ^(G)the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
²⁷ For you save ^(H)a humble people,
    but ^(I)the haughty eyes you bring down.
²⁸ For it is you who light my ^(J)lamp;
    the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
²⁹ For by you I can run against a troop,
    and by my God I can ^(K)leap over ^(L)a wall.
³⁰ This God—his way is ^(M)perfect;^[b]
    the word of the Lord ^(N)proves true;
    he is ^(O)a shield for all those who ^(P)take refuge in him.
³¹ For ^(Q)who is God, but the Lord?
    And who is ^(R)a rock, except our God?—
³² the God who ^(S)equipped me with strength
    and made my way ^(T)blameless.

¹⁸ You were unmindful of ^(A)the Rock that bore^[a] you,
    and you ^(B)forgot the God who gave you birth.
^19 (C)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
    because of the provocation of ^(D)his sons and his daughters.
²⁰ And he said, ^(E)‘I will hide my face from them;
    I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
    children in whom is no faithfulness.

²⁸ “For they are a nation void of counsel,
    and there is ^(A)no understanding in them.
^29 (B)If they were wise, they would understand this;
    they would ^(C)discern their latter end!
³⁰ How could ^(D)one have chased a thousand,
    and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock ^(E)had sold them,
    and the Lord had given them up?
³¹ For ^(F)their rock is not as our Rock;
    ^(G)our enemies are by themselves.
³² For their vine ^(H)comes from the vine of Sodom
    and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of ^(I)poison;
    their clusters are bitter;
³³ their wine is the poison of ^(J)serpents
    and the cruel venom of asps.
³⁴ “‘Is not this laid up in store with me,
    ^(K)sealed up in my treasuries?
^35 (L)Vengeance is mine, and recompense,^{[a]
    (M)}for the time when their foot shall slip;
for ^(N)the day of their calamity is at hand,
    and their doom comes swiftly.’
³⁶ For ^(O)the Lord will vindicate^[b] his people
    ^(P)and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone
    and there is none remaining, ^(Q)bond or free.
³⁷ Then he will say, ^(R)‘Where are their gods,
    ^(S)the rock in which they took refuge,
³⁸ who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
    let them be your protection!
³⁹ “‘See now that ^(T)I, even I, am he,
    and there is no god beside me;
^(U)I kill and I make alive;
    ^(V)I wound and I heal;
    and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

³⁴ “For ^(C)who has known the mind of the Lord,
    or ^(D)who has been his counsellor?”
³⁵ “Or ^(E)who has given a gift to him
    that he might be repaid?”