Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

123 I raise my eyes to you—
    you who rule heaven.
² Just as the eyes of servants attend to their masters’ hand,
    just as the eyes of a female servant attend to her mistress’ hand—
    that’s how our eyes attend to the Lord our God
    until he has mercy on us.

² Therefore, my troubled thoughts make me turn back—
    because of my inner turmoil.
³ I hear teaching that insults me,
    but I am forced to answer based on my own understanding.^[a]
4 Do you know this from long ago—
        from when humans were placed on earth—
⁵     that the rejoicing of the wicked is short,
        the joy of the godless, brief?
⁶ Though their height reaches heaven
    and their heads touch the clouds,
⁷     they will perish forever like their dung;
    those who saw them will say, “Where are they?”
⁸ They will disappear like a dream,
        and none will find them,
    carried away like a nighttime vision.
⁹ The eye that saw them will do so no more;
    they won’t be seen again at home.
¹⁰ Their children will repay the poor;
    their hands will give back their wealth.
¹¹ Vigor filled their bones
    and now sleeps with them in the dust.