Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

^7 (A)Restore us, O God of hosts;
    let your face shine, that we may be saved!
⁸ You brought ^(B)a vine out of Egypt;
    you ^(C)drove out the nations and planted it.
⁹ You ^(D)cleared the ground for it;
    it took deep root and filled the land.
¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shade,
    the mighty cedars with its branches.
¹¹ It sent out its branches to ^(E)the sea
    and its shoots to ^(F)the River.^[a]
12 Why then have you ^(G)broken down its walls,
    so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
^13 (H)The boar from the forest ravages it,
    and all that move in the field feed on it.
¹⁴ Turn again, O God of hosts!
    ^(I)Look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine,
¹⁵     the stock that your right hand planted,
    and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.

^23 (A)How can you say, ‘I am not unclean,
    I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way ^(B)in the valley;
    know what you have done—
a restless young camel running here and there,
^{24     (C)}a wild donkey used to the wilderness,
in her heat sniffing the wind!
    Who can restrain her lust?
None who seek her need weary themselves;
    in her month they will find her.
²⁵ Keep ^(D)your feet from going unshod
    and ^(E)your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘It is hopeless,
    ^(F)for I have loved foreigners,
    and after them I will go.’
²⁶ “As a thief is shamed when caught,
    so the house of Israel shall be shamed:
^(G)they, their kings, their officials,
    their priests, and their prophets,
²⁷ who say to a tree, ‘You are my father’,
    and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to me,
    and not their face.
But ^(H)in the time of their trouble they say,
    ‘Arise and save us!’
²⁸ But ^(I)where are your gods
    that you made for yourself?
Let them arise, ^(J)if they can save you,
    in your time of trouble;
for ^(K)as many as your cities
    are your gods, O Judah.
²⁹ “Why do you contend with me?
    You have all transgressed against me,
declares the Lord.
³⁰ In vain have I ^(L)struck your children;
    they took no correction;
^(M)your own sword devoured your prophets
    like a ravening lion.
³¹ And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
    or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
    we will come no more to you’?
^32 (N)Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
    or a bride her attire?
Yet ^(O)my people have forgotten me
    days without number.
³³ “How well you direct your course
    to seek love!
So that even to wicked women
    you have taught your ways.
³⁴ Also on your skirts is found
    ^(P)the lifeblood of the guiltless poor;
you did not find them ^(Q)breaking in.
    Yet in spite of all these things
³⁵ you say, ‘I am innocent;
    surely his anger has turned from me.’
^(R)Behold, I will bring you to judgement
    for ^(S)saying, ‘I have not sinned.’
^36 (T)How much you go about,
    changing your way!
You shall be ^(U)put to shame by Egypt
    as you were put to shame by Assyria.
³⁷ From it too you will come away
    with ^(V)your hands on your head,
for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust,
    and you will not prosper by them.