Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

80 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
    you who lead ^(C)Joseph like ^(D)a flock!
You who are ^(E)enthroned upon the cherubim, ^(F)shine forth.
²     Before ^(G)Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,
^(H)stir up your might
    and ^(I)come to save us!
^3 (J)Restore us,^[a] O God;
    ^(K)let your face shine, that we may be saved!
⁴ O ^(L)Lord God of hosts,
    ^(M)how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?
⁵ You have fed them with ^(N)the bread of tears
    and given them tears to drink in full measure.
^6 (O)You make us an object of contention for our ^(P)neighbours,
    and our enemies laugh among themselves.
^7 (Q)Restore us, O God of hosts;
    let your face shine, that we may be saved!
⁸ You brought ^(R)a vine out of Egypt;
    you ^(S)drove out the nations and planted it.
⁹ You ^(T)cleared the ground for it;
    it took deep root and filled the land.
¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shade,
    the mighty cedars with its branches.
¹¹ It sent out its branches to ^(U)the sea
    and its shoots to ^(V)the River.^[b]
12 Why then have you ^(W)broken down its walls,
    so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
^13 (X)The boar from the forest ravages it,
    and all that move in the field feed on it.
¹⁴ Turn again, O God of hosts!
    ^(Y)Look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine,
¹⁵     the stock that your right hand planted,
    and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.
¹⁶ They have ^(Z)burned it with fire; they have ^(AA)cut it down;
    may they perish at ^(AB)the rebuke of your face!
¹⁷ But ^(AC)let your hand be on the man of your right hand,
    the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
¹⁸ Then we shall not turn back from you;
    ^(AD)give us life, and we will call upon your name!
^19 (AE)Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!
    Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

¹⁷ “For behold, ^(A)I create new heavens
    and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
    or come into mind.
¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice for ever
    in that which I create;
for behold, ^(B)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.
^19 (C)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and be glad in my people;
^(D)no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
    and the cry of distress.
²⁰ No more shall there be in it
    an infant who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for ^(E)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
    and ^(F)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
^21 (G)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
^22 (H)They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat;
^(I)for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
    and my chosen shall long enjoy^[a] the work of their hands.
^23 (J)They shall not labour in vain
    ^(K)or bear children for calamity,^[b]
for ^(L)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
    and their descendants with them.
^24 (M)Before they call I will answer;
    ^(N)while they are yet speaking I will hear.
^25 (O)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
    the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
    and ^(P)dust shall be the serpent's food.
^(Q)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.