Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

123 I lift up my eyes to You Who dwell in the heavens.

² Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God until He has mercy on us.

³ Have mercy on us, O LORD! Have mercy on us; for we have suffered too much contempt.

⁴ Our soul is filled too full with the mocking of the wealthy and the contempt of the proud. A song of degrees, or Psalm, of David

5 Then Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, sang the same day, saying,

² “Praise the LORD for the avenging of Israel, and for the people who offered themselves willingly!

³ “Hear, you kings! Listen, you princes! I will! I will sing to the LORD! I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel!

⁴ “LORD, when You went out of Seir, when You departed out of the field of Edom, the Earth trembled, and the skies rained! The clouds also dropped water!

⁵ “The mountains melted before the LORD, that Sinai before the LORD God of Israel.

⁶ “In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath (in the days of Jael), the highways were unoccupied and the travelers walked through byways.

⁷ “The towns were not inhabited. They decayed, I say, in Israel. Until I, Deborah, came up, who rose up a mother in Israel.

⁸ “They chose new gods. Then, war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand of Israel?

⁹ “My heart is with the governors of Israel, on those who are willing among the people. Praise the LORD!

¹⁰ Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who dwell by Middin, and who walk by the way.

¹¹ “At the sound that divides the flock among the troughs of water, there shall they recount the righteousness of the LORD, His righteousness of His towns in Israel. Then the people of the LORD shall go down to the gates.

¹² “Up Deborah! Up! Arise! Sing a song! Arise Barak, and lead your captives away, you son of Abinoam!

⁴³ “Now when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, it walks throughout dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.

⁴⁴ “Then it says, ‘I will return to my house, from where I came.’ And when he has come, he finds it empty, swept and garnished.

⁴⁵ “Then it goes, and takes with it seven other spirits, worse than itself. And they enter in, and dwell there. And the end of that man is worse than the beginning. Even so shall it be with this wicked generation.”