Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

126 When the Lord ^(B)restored the fortunes of Zion,
    we were like those who ^(C)dream.
² Then our ^(D)mouth was filled with laughter,
    and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then they said among the nations,
    ^(E)“The Lord has done great things for them.”
³ The Lord has done great things for us;
    we are glad.
⁴ Restore our fortunes, O Lord,
    like streams in the Negeb!
^5 (F)Those who sow in tears
    shall reap with shouts of joy!
⁶ He who goes out weeping,
    bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
    bringing his sheaves with him.

^13 (A)You went out for the salvation of your people,
    for the salvation of ^(B)your anointed.
^(C)You crushed the head of the house of the wicked,
    laying him bare from thigh to neck.^[a] Selah
¹⁴ You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors,
    who came like a whirlwind to scatter me,
    rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.
^15 (D)You trampled the sea with your horses,
    the surging of mighty waters.
^16 (E)I hear, and ^(F)my body trembles;
    my lips quiver at the sound;
^(G)rottenness enters into my bones;
    my legs tremble beneath me.
Yet ^(H)I will quietly wait for the day of trouble
    to come upon people who invade us.

¹⁷ Though the fig tree should not blossom,
    nor fruit be on the vines,
the produce of the olive fail
    and the fields yield no food,
the flock be cut off from the fold
    and there be no herd in the stalls,
^18 (I)yet I will rejoice in the Lord;
    ^(J)I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
¹⁹ God, the Lord, is my strength;
    ^(K)he makes my feet like the deer's;
    he makes me ^(L)tread on my ^(M)high places.
^(N)To the choirmaster: with ^(O)stringed^[b] instruments.