Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

^12 (A)Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
    the people whom he has ^(B)chosen as his heritage!
¹³ The Lord ^(C)looks down from heaven;
    he sees all the children of man;
¹⁴ from ^(D)where he sits enthroned he ^(E)looks out
    on all the inhabitants of the earth,
¹⁵ he who fashions the hearts of them all
    and observes all their deeds.
^16 (F)The king is not saved by his great army;
    a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
^17 (G)The war horse is a false hope for salvation,
    and by its great might it cannot rescue.
¹⁸ Behold, ^(H)the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
    ^(I)on those who hope in his steadfast love,
¹⁹ that he may ^(J)deliver their soul from death
    and keep them alive in ^(K)famine.
²⁰ Our soul ^(L)waits for the Lord;
    he is our ^(M)help and ^(N)our shield.
²¹ For our heart is ^(O)glad in him,
    because we ^(P)trust in his holy name.
²² Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
    even as we hope in you.

37 “At this also my heart trembles
    and leaps out of its place.
² Keep listening to the thunder of his voice
    and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
³ Under the whole heaven he lets it go,
    and his ^(A)lightning to the ^(B)corners of the earth.
⁴ After it ^(C)his voice roars;
    ^(D)he thunders with his majestic voice,
    and he does not restrain the lightnings^[a] when his voice is heard.
⁵ God thunders wondrously with his voice;
    he does ^(E)great things that we cannot ^(F)comprehend.
⁶ For to ^(G)the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth’,
    likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
⁷ He ^(H)seals up the hand of every man,
    that all men whom he made may ^(I)know it.
⁸ Then the beasts go into their ^(J)lairs,
    and remain in their ^(K)dens.
⁹ From ^(L)its chamber ^(M)comes the whirlwind,
    and ^(N)cold from the scattering winds.
¹⁰ By the breath of God ^(O)ice is given,
    and ^(P)the broad waters are frozen fast.
¹¹ He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
    the clouds scatter his lightning.
¹² They ^(Q)turn round and round by his ^(R)guidance,
    ^(S)to accomplish all that he commands them
    on the face of ^(T)the habitable world.
¹³ Whether for ^(U)correction or for his ^(V)land
    or for ^(W)love, he causes it to happen.

^(H)“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
^55 (I)“O death, where is your victory?
    O death, where is your sting?”