Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁵ Yes, I must find my rest in God.
    He is the God who gives me hope.
⁶ It is surely true that he is my rock and the God who saves me.
    He is like a fort to me, so I will always be secure.
⁷ I depend on God to save me and to honor me.
    He is my mighty rock and my place of safety.
⁸ Trust in him at all times, you people.
    Tell him all your troubles.
    God is our place of safety.

⁹ Surely ordinary people are only a breath.
    Important people are not what they seem to be.
If they were weighed on a scale, they wouldn’t amount to anything.
    Together they are only a breath.
¹⁰ Don’t trust in money you have taken from others.
    Don’t put false hope in things you have stolen.
Even if your riches grow,
    don’t put your trust in them.

¹¹ God, I have heard you say two things.
    One is that power belongs to you, God.
¹²     The other is that your love, Lord, never ends.
You will reward everyone
    in keeping with what they have done.

¹⁴ May the day I was born be cursed!
    May the day I was born to my mother not be blessed!
¹⁵ May the man who brought my father the news be cursed!
    He’s the one who made my father very glad.
    He said, “You have had a baby! It’s a boy!”
¹⁶ May that man be like the towns
    the Lord destroyed without pity.
May that man hear loud weeping in the morning.
    May he hear a battle cry at noon.
¹⁷ He should have killed me in my mother’s body.
    He should have made my mother my grave.
    He should have let her body stay large forever.
¹⁸ Why did I ever come out of my mother’s body?
    I’ve seen nothing but trouble and sorrow.
    My days will end in shame.