Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

95 Come, let’s sing joyfully to the Lord.
Let’s shout happily to the rock of our salvation.
² Let’s come into his presence with a song of thanksgiving.
Let’s shout happily to him with psalms.
³ The Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods.
⁴ In his hand are the deep places of the earth,
and the mountain peaks are his.
⁵ The sea is his.
He made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

⁶ Come, let’s worship and bow down.
Let’s kneel in front of the Lord, our maker,
⁷ because he is our God
and we are the people in his care,
the flock that he leads.

If only you would listen to him today!
⁸ “Do not be stubborn like ⌞my people were⌟ at Meribah,
like the time at Massah in the desert.
⁹ Your ancestors challenged me and tested me there,
although they had seen what I had done.
¹⁰ For 40 years I was disgusted with those people.
So I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts continue to stray.
They have not learned my ways.’
¹¹ That is why I angrily took this solemn oath:
‘They will never enter my place of rest!’ ”

⁸ Don’t laugh at me, my enemies.
Although I’ve fallen, I will get up.
Although I sit in the dark, the Lord is my light.
⁹ I have sinned against the Lord.
So I will endure his fury
until he takes up my cause and wins my case.
He will bring me into the light,
and I will see his victory.
¹⁰ Then my enemies will see this, and they will be covered with shame,
because they asked me, “Where is the Lord your God?”
Now I look at them.
They are trampled like mud in the streets.

¹¹ The day for rebuilding your walls
and extending your borders is coming.
¹² When that day comes, your people will come to you
from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
from Egypt to the Euphrates River,
from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
¹³ The earth will become a wasteland for those who live on it
because of what the people living there have done.

¹⁴ With your shepherd’s staff, take care of your people,
the sheep that belong to you.
They live alone in the woods, in fertile pastures.
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead like before.
¹⁵ Let us see miracles
like the time you came out of Egypt.
¹⁶ Nations will see this and be ashamed in spite of all their strength.
They will put their hands over their mouths.
Their ears will become deaf.
¹⁷ They will lick dust like snakes,
like animals that crawl on the ground.
They will come out of their hiding places trembling.
They will turn away from your presence in fear, O Lord our God.
They will be afraid of you.
¹⁸ Who is a God like you?
You forgive sin
and overlook the rebellion of your faithful people.
You will not be angry forever,
because you would rather show mercy.
¹⁹ You will again have compassion on us.
You will overcome our wrongdoing.
You will throw all our sins into the deep sea.
²⁰ You will be faithful to Jacob.
You will have mercy on Abraham
as you swore by an oath to our ancestors long ago.