Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

63 O God, You are my God. I will seek You early. My soul thirsts for You. My flesh longs greatly after You in a barren and dry land, without water.

² Thus, when I behold Your power and Your Glory, I behold You as in the Sanctuary.

³ For Your lovingkindness is better than life. My lips shall praise You.

⁴ Thus will I magnify You all my life and lift up my hands in Your Name.

⁵ My soul shall be satisfied, as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips,

⁶ When I remember You on my bed, I think upon You in the night watches.

⁷ Therefore, because You have been my helper, I will rejoice under the shadow of Your wings.

⁸ My soul clings to You. Your right hand upholds me.

5 Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved to His vineyard. My Beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

² And He hedged it and gathered out the stones from it. And he planted it with the best plants. And he built a tower in its midst, and made a winepress therein. Then He expected it to bring forth grapes. But it brought forth sour grapes.

³ “Now therefore, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, please, between Me and My vineyard.

⁴ “What more could I have done to My vineyard that I have not done to it? Why, when I expected it to bring forth grapes, has it brought forth sour grapes?

⁵ “And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up. I will break its wall, and it shall be trodden down.

⁶ “And I will lay it waste. It shall be neither cut nor dug, but briers and thorns shall grow up. I will also Command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.”

⁷ Surely the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the House of Israel. And the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. And he looked for judgment—but behold, oppression; for righteousness—but behold, a crying.

⁴³ “For it is not a good tree that brings forth evil fruit, nor an evil tree that brings forth good fruit.

⁴⁴ “For every tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes gathered from bushes.

⁴⁵ “A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good. And an evil man, out of the evil treasure of his heart, brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.