Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

1 Happy is the person who doesn’t listen to the wicked.
    He doesn’t go where sinners go.
    He doesn’t do what bad people do.
² He loves the Lord’s teachings.
    He thinks about those teachings day and night.
³ He is strong, like a tree planted by a river.
    It produces fruit in season.
    Its leaves don’t die.
Everything he does will succeed.

17 “The sin of the people of Judah is written with an iron tool.
    Their sins were cut into stone with a hard point.
That stone is their hearts.
    Their sins were cut into the corners of their altars.
² Even their children remember
    their altars to idols and their Asherah idols.
They remember the altars under the green trees
    and on the high hills.
³ They remember the altars on my mountain and in the open country.
I will give your wealth and treasures
    to other people.
And they will destroy the places of worship in your country.
    You sinned by worshiping at those places.
⁴ You will lose the land I gave you.
    And it is your own fault.
I will let your enemies take you as their slaves.
    You will be slaves in a land you have never known.
This is because you have made my anger burn like a hot fire.
    And it will burn forever.”