Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁵ Wait calmly for God alone, my soul,
because my hope comes from him.
⁶ He alone is my rock and my savior—my stronghold.
I cannot be shaken.

⁷ My salvation and my glory depend on God.
God is the rock of my strength, my refuge.
⁸ Trust him at all times, you people.
Pour out your hearts in his presence.
God is our refuge. Selah

⁹ Common people are only a whisper in the wind.
Important people are only a delusion.
When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing.
They are less than a whisper in the wind.
¹⁰ Do not count on extortion ⌞to make you rich⌟.
Do not hope to gain anything through robbery.
When riches increase, do not depend on them.

¹¹ God has spoken once.
I have heard it ⌞said⌟ twice:
“Power belongs to God.
¹² Mercy belongs to you, O Lord.
You reward a person based on what he has done.”

¹⁴ Cursed is the day that I was born,
the day that my mother gave birth to me.
May it not be blessed.
¹⁵ Cursed is the man who made my father very happy with the news
that he had just become the father of a baby boy.
¹⁶ May that man be like the cities
that the Lord destroyed without pity.
May he hear a cry of alarm in the morning
and a battle cry at noon.
¹⁷ If only he had killed me while I was in the womb.
Then my mother would have been my grave,
and she would have always been pregnant.
¹⁸ Why did I come out of the womb?
All I’ve seen is trouble and grief.
I will finish my days in shame.