Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁹ If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
    and you make the Most High your dwelling,
¹⁰ no harm^(A) will overtake you,
    no disaster will come near your tent.
¹¹ For he will command his angels^(B) concerning you
    to guard you in all your ways;^(C)
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
    so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.^(D)
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
    you will trample the great lion and the serpent.^(E)

¹⁴ “Because he^[a] loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
    I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him;
    I will be with him in trouble,
    I will deliver him and honor him.^(F)
16 With long life^(G) I will satisfy him
    and show him my salvation.^(H)”

¹⁰ You have trusted^(A) in your wickedness
    and have said, ‘No one sees me.’^(B)
Your wisdom^(C) and knowledge mislead^(D) you
    when you say to yourself,
    ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
¹¹ Disaster^(E) will come upon you,
    and you will not know how to conjure it away.
A calamity will fall upon you
    that you cannot ward off with a ransom;
a catastrophe you cannot foresee
    will suddenly^(F) come upon you.

¹² “Keep on, then, with your magic spells
    and with your many sorceries,^(G)
    which you have labored at since childhood.
Perhaps you will succeed,
    perhaps you will cause terror.
¹³ All the counsel you have received has only worn you out!^(H)
    Let your astrologers^(I) come forward,
those stargazers who make predictions month by month,
    let them save^(J) you from what is coming upon you.
¹⁴ Surely they are like stubble;^(K)
    the fire^(L) will burn them up.
They cannot even save themselves
    from the power of the flame.^(M)
These are not coals for warmth;
    this is not a fire to sit by.
¹⁵ That is all they are to you—
    these you have dealt with
    and labored^(N) with since childhood.
All of them go on in their error;
    there is not one that can save^(O) you.