Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to make music to your name, O Most High,
² to proclaim your mercy in the morning
and your faithfulness every night,
³ with a ten-stringed instrument and with a harp,
with a melody on a lyre.

⁴ Yes, you make me glad by your work, O Lord.
I sing loudly at the works of your hands.

¹⁵ Yes, they can proclaim, “The Lord is upright.
He is my Rock, and he does no wrong.”

⁸ Go and write it on a tablet for them.
Record it on a scroll,
so that in the future it may serve as a permanent witness.
⁹ These are a rebellious people, lying children,
children unwilling to hear the law of the Lord,
¹⁰ who tell the seers, “Stop seeing!”
who tell the prophets, “Stop prophesying what is right!
Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy illusions.
¹¹ Leave the way! Turn from the path!
Stop getting in our face about the Holy One of Israel!”
¹² This is what the Holy One of Israel says:
    Since you have rejected my word,
    and you trust in oppression and deceit,
    and you rely on them,
¹³     your guilt will be like a crack in a wall,
    bulging out and about to collapse.
    It will suddenly fall without warning.
¹⁴     It will crash like a broken clay pot,
    smashed to pieces so violently that not one useful piece will be left,
    not even a piece good enough to pick up a coal from the hearth
    or to ladle water from a cistern.
¹⁵ This is what the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, says:
    If you repent and wait quietly, you will be saved.
    Your strength will depend on quietness and trust.
But you refused.
¹⁶ You said, “No, we will flee on horseback!”
Yes indeed, you will flee.
You said, “We will ride away swiftly!”
Yes indeed, you will be pursued swiftly.
¹⁷ A thousand will flee when just one threatens.
When five threaten, you will flee,
until you are like a single flag, fluttering on a mountaintop,
like a lonely banner on a hill.