Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹ Oh that you would tear open the heavens and come down
    so that the mountains would quake in your presence,
² as when fire sets brushwood ablaze
    or causes water to boil.
Thus your name would be known to your adversaries
    and the nations would tremble at your presence.
³ When you descended to perform awesome deeds
    that we did not anticipate,
    the mountains quaked when you appeared.
⁴ Throughout the ages no ear has ever heard,
    nor has any eye ever seen,
any other god except you
    performing such deeds for those who trust him.
⁵ You welcome those who lead an upright life
    and rejoice to imitate your ways.
When we sin, you become angry,
    but when we follow your ways,
    we know that we will be saved.
⁶ All of us have become unclean,
    and all of our righteous deeds are like filthy rags
We all become withered like leaves,
    and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
⁷ There is no one who invokes your name
    or attempts to hold fast to you.
For you have hidden your face from us
    and have delivered us up because of our sins.
⁸ Yet, O Lord, you are our Father;
    we are the clay and you are our potter;
    all of us are the work of your hands.
⁹ Do not let your anger go to extremes, O Lord,
    and do not remember our sinfulness forever.
Look upon us all,
    for we are all your people.

^2 [c]Listen to us, O shepherd of Israel,^[d]
    you who lead Joseph like a flock.
As you sit enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth
³     over Ephraim,^[e] Benjamin, and Manasseh.
Stir up your power
    and come to save us.
⁴ Restore us, O Lord of hosts;
    let your face shine^[f] upon us,
    and we will be saved.
⁵ O Lord of hosts,^[g]
    how long will you be angry
    at your people’s prayers?
⁶ You have fed them with the bread of tears
    and made them drink tears beyond measure.
⁷ You have made us an object of contention to our neighbors,
    a source of mockery to our enemies.

¹⁷ Let those who would burn it or cut it down
    perish when confronted by your rebuke.
¹⁸ Let your hand rest upon the man at your right,^[a]
    the son of man that you yourself made strong.
¹⁹ Then we will never again turn away from you;
    give us life and we will call upon your name.^[b]

the sun will be darkened
    and the moon will not give forth its light,
²⁵ and the stars will be falling from the sky,
    and the heavenly powers will be shaken.