Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁴ Cause me to understand your ways, Lord;
    teach me your paths.
⁵ Guide me in your truth and teach me;
    for you are the God who delivers me.
        All day long I have waited for you.

⁶ Remember, Lord, your tender mercies and your gracious love;
    indeed, they are eternal!
⁷ Do not remember my youthful sins and transgressions;
    but remember me in light of your gracious love,
        in light of your goodness, Lord.

⁸ The Lord is good and just;
    therefore he will teach sinners concerning the way.
⁹ He will guide the humble^[b] to justice;
    he will teach the humble^[c] his way.
¹⁰ All the paths of the Lord lead to gracious love and truth
    for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.^[d]

¹⁶ “But they—our ancestors—became arrogant and stubborn,
    refusing to listen^[a] to your commands.
¹⁷ They would not listen,^[b]
    and did not remember the miracles you did among them.
Instead, they became stubborn
    and appointed a leader
        to return them to their slavery.

“But you are a God of forgiveness,
    gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger,
    and rich in gracious love;
        therefore you did not abandon them.

¹⁸ Moreover, after they had cast a golden calf for themselves, they said,
    “This is your god who brought you out of Egypt!”
        and committed terrible^[c] blasphemies.
¹⁹ You, in your great compassion,
    did not abandon them in the wilderness.
The pillar of cloud did not leave them in daylight,
    in order to provide light for them on the path they took.
Nor did the pillar of fire abandon them^[d] at night,
    in order to provide light for them
        and lead them on the path they took.

²⁰ “You gave your good Spirit to instruct them,
    not withholding manna from them,^[e]
        and providing water to quench^[f] their thirst.
²¹ You sustained them in the wilderness for 40 years.
    They lacked nothing.
Their clothes did not wear out,
    and their feet did not swell.
²² You gave them kingdoms and nations,
    apportioning them as frontier boundaries.
They took possession of the land of Sihon,
    the land of the king of Heshbon,
        and the land of Og, king of Bashan.

²³ “You multiplied their descendants like the stars in heaven
    and brought them to the land
about which you told their ancestors
    to enter and possess.
²⁴ So their descendants entered
    and took possession of the land.
Before their eyes you subdued those living in the land—the Canaanites—
    putting them under their control,
along with their kings and the peoples of the land,
    so they could do with them as they pleased.
²⁵ They conquered fortified cities and fertile ground,
    possessing houses filled with all kinds of good things,
wells already dug, with vineyards,
    olive orchards, and fruit trees in abundance.
So they ate, were satiated, and were well nourished,
    delighting themselves in your great goodness.