Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

63 O God, you are my God; ^(B)earnestly I seek you;
    ^(C)my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
    as in ^(D)a dry and weary land where there is no water.
² So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
    beholding ^(E)your power and glory.
³ Because your ^(F)steadfast love is better than life,
    my lips will praise you.
⁴ So I will bless you ^(G)as long as I live;
    in your ^(H)name I will ^(I)lift up my hands.
⁵ My soul will be ^(J)satisfied as with fat and rich food,
    and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,
⁶ when I remember you ^(K)upon my bed,
    and meditate on you in ^(L)the watches of the night;
⁷ for you have been my help,
    and in ^(M)the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.
⁸ My soul ^(N)clings to you;
    your right hand ^(O)upholds me.
⁹ But those who seek to destroy my life
    ^(P)shall go down into ^(Q)the depths of the earth;
¹⁰ they shall be given over to the power of the sword;
    they shall be a portion for jackals.
¹¹ But ^(R)the king shall rejoice in God;
    all who ^(S)swear by him shall exult,
    ^(T)for the mouths of ^(U)liars will be stopped.

⁷ The Lord has sworn by ^(A)the pride of Jacob:
“Surely ^(B)I will never forget any of their deeds.
^8 (C)Shall not the land tremble on this account,
    and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
^(D)and all of it rise like the Nile,
    and be tossed about ^(E)and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”
⁹ “And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
    ^(F)“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.
^10 (G)I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
^(H)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
    ^(I)and baldness on every head;
^(J)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.
¹¹ “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
    “when ^(K)I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    ^(L)but of hearing the words of the Lord.
^12 (M)They shall wander from sea to sea,
    and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
    ^(N)but they shall not find it.
^13 (O)“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
    shall ^(P)faint for thirst.
¹⁴ Those who swear by ^(Q)the Guilt of Samaria,
    and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan’,
and, ‘As ^(R)the Way of ^(S)Beersheba lives’,
    they shall fall, and never rise again.”