Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁵ Lord, your love is as high as the heavens.
    Your faithful love reaches up to the skies.
⁶ Your holiness is as great as the height of the highest mountains.
    You are as honest as the oceans are deep.
Lord, you keep people and animals safe.
⁷     How priceless your faithful love is!
    People find safety in the shadow of your wings.
⁸ They eat well because there is more than enough in your house.
    You let them drink from your river that flows with good things.
⁹ You have the fountain of life.
    We are filled with light because you give us light.

¹⁰ Keep on loving those who know you.
    Keep on doing right to those whose hearts are honest.

3 “Suppose a man divorces his wife.
    What if she then marries another man?
Should her first husband return to her again?
    If he does, won’t the land become completely ‘unclean’?
People of Israel, you have lived like a prostitute.
    You have loved many other gods.
    So do you think you can return to me now?”
    announces the Lord.
² “Look up at the bare hilltops.
    Is there any place where you have not worshiped other gods?
    You have been unfaithful to me like a wife committing adultery.
By the side of the road you sat waiting for lovers.
    You sat there like someone who wanders in the desert.
You have made the land impure.
    You are like a sinful prostitute.
³ So I have held back the showers.
    I have kept the spring rains from falling.
But you still have the bold face of a prostitute.
    You refuse to blush with shame.
⁴ You have just now called out to me.
    You said,
‘My Father, you have been my friend
    ever since I was young.
⁵ Will you always be angry with me?
    Will your anger continue forever?’
This is how you talk.
    But you do all the evil things you can.”