Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

134 ⁽⁰⁾ A song of ascents:

⁽¹⁾ Come, bless Adonai, all you servants of Adonai,
who serve each night in the house of Adonai.
² Lift your hands toward the sanctuary,
and bless Adonai.
³ May Adonai, the maker of heaven and earth,
bless you from Tziyon.

³² “Therefore, children, listen to me:
happy are those who keep my ways.
³³ Hear instruction, and grow wise;
do not refuse it.
³⁴ How happy the person who listens to me,
who watches daily at my gates
and waits outside my doors.
³⁵ For he who finds me finds life
and obtains the favor of Adonai.
³⁶ But he who misses me harms himself;
all who hate me love death.”

9 Wisdom has built herself a house;
she has carved her seven pillars.
² She has prepared her food, spiced her wine,
and she has set her table.
³ She has sent out her young girls [with invitations];
she calls from the heights of the city,
⁴ “Whoever is unsure of himself, turn in here!”
To someone weak-willed she says,
⁵ “Come and eat my food!
Drink the wine I have mixed!
⁶ Don’t stay unsure of yourself, but live!
Walk in the way of understanding!”