Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³ Yes, the sparrow has found a home
    and the swallow a nest for herself,
    where she may lay her young,
even at Your altars,
    O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God.
⁴ Blessed are those who dwell in Your house;
    they continually praise You. Selah

⁵ Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
    in whose heart are the paths to Zion.
⁶ As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
    they makes it a spring;
    the early rain also covers it with pools.
⁷ They go from strength to strength;
    every one of them appears in Zion before God.

Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
    and send for wailing women, that they may come.
¹⁸ And let them make haste
    and take up a wailing for us,
that our eyes may run down with tears
    and our eyelids gush out with waters.
¹⁹ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,
    “How devastated we are!
    We are greatly humiliated,
because we have forsaken the land,
    because our dwellings have cast us out.”

²⁰ Yet hear the word of the Lord, O you women,
    and let your ear receive the word of His mouth;
and teach your daughters wailing,
    and everyone her neighbor a lamentation.
²¹ “For death has come up into our windows;
    and has entered our palaces,
to cut off the children from the streets,
    and the young men from the squares.”

“The carcasses of men shall fall
    as dung upon the open field,
and as the sheaf after the harvester,
    and no one shall gather them.”

Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
    and let not the mighty man glory in his might,
    let not the rich man glory in his riches;
²⁴ but let him who glories glory in this,
    that he understands and knows Me,
that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness,
    justice, and righteousness in the earth.
    For in these things I delight,
    says the Lord.