Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

146 Halleluyah!

Praise Adonai, my soul!
² I will praise Adonai as long as I live.
I will sing praise to my God all my life.

³ Don’t put your trust in princes
or in mortals, who cannot help.
⁴ When they breathe their last, they return to dust;
on that very day all their plans are gone.

⁵ Happy is he whose help is Ya‘akov’s God,
whose hope is in Adonai his God.
⁶ He made heaven and earth,
the sea and everything in them;
he keeps faith forever.

⁷ He secures justice for the oppressed,
he gives food to the hungry.
Adonai sets prisoners free,
⁸ Adonai opens the eyes of the blind,
Adonai lifts up those who are bent over.
Adonai loves the righteous.
⁹ Adonai watches over strangers,
he sustains the fatherless and widows;
but the way of the wicked he twists.

¹⁰ Adonai will reign forever,
your God, Tziyon, through all generations.

Halleluyah!

¹⁴ “For a long time I have held my peace,
I have been silent, restrained myself.
Now I will shriek like a woman in labor,
panting and gasping for air.
¹⁵ I will devastate mountains and hills,
wither all their vegetation,
turn the rivers into islands
and dry up the lakes.
¹⁶ The blind I will lead on a road they don’t know,
on roads they don’t know I will lead them;
I will turn darkness to light before them,
and straighten their twisted paths.
These are things I will do without fail.
¹⁷ Those who trust in idols,
who say to statues, ‘You are our gods,’
will be repulsed in utter shame.
¹⁸ Listen, you deaf! Look, you blind! —
so that you will see!
¹⁹ Who is as blind as my servant,
or as deaf as the messenger I send?
Who is as blind as the one I rewarded,
as blind as the servant of Adonai?”

²⁰ You see much but don’t pay attention;
you open your ears, but you don’t listen.
²¹ Adonai was pleased, for his righteousness’ sake,
to make the Torah great and glorious.