Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

90 LORD, You have been our habitation from generation to generation.

² Before the mountains were made (and You had formed the Earth and the world), even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

³ You turn man to contrition. Again, You say, “Return, you sons of Adam.”

⁴ For a thousand years in Your sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁵ You have overflowed them. They are asleep. In the morning, they grow like the grass.

⁶ In the morning it flourishes and grows. In the evening, it is cut down and withers.

⁷ For we are consumed by Your anger; and by Your wrath are we troubled.

⁸ You have set our iniquities before You, and our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.

⁹ For all our days have passed away in Your anger. We have spent our years as a thought.

¹⁰ The time of our life is threescore years and ten (and if they be of strength, fourscore years). Yet, their strength is but labor and sorrow; for it is cut off quickly and we flee away.

¹¹ Who knows the power of Your wrath? For according to Your fear is Your anger.

¹² Teach us to number our days, so that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

¹³ Return (O LORD, how long?) and be pacified toward Your servants.

¹⁴ Fill us with Your mercy in the morning. So shall we rejoice and be glad all our days!

¹⁵ Comfort us according to the days that You have afflicted us, according to the years that we have seen evil.

¹⁶ Let Your work be seen toward Your servants, and Your Glory upon their children.

¹⁷ And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us and direct the work of our hands upon us, even direct the work of our hands.

²⁴ “Therefore,” says the LORD God of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, “Ah, I will relieve Myself of My adversaries and avenge Myself of My enemies.

²⁵ “Then I will turn My Hand upon you and burn out your dross until it is pure and take away all your tin.

²⁶ “And I will restore your Judges, as at the first, and your counselors, as at the beginning. Afterward, you shall be called a City of Righteousness, a faithful city.”

²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed in judgment, and those who return in her, in justice.

²⁸ And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together. And those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of the oaks, which you have desired. And you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.

³⁰ For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.

³¹ And the strong shall be as tinder, and their work as a spark. And they shall both burn together. And no one shall quench them.

²⁹ And when the people were thickly gathered together, He began to say, “This is a wicked generation! They seek a sign. And no sign shall be given to them, except the sign of Jonah the Prophet.

³⁰ “For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

³¹ “The Queen of the South shall rise in judgment with the men of this generation and shall condemn them. For she came from the utmost parts of the Earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, a Greater than Solomon is here.

³² “The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation and shall condemn it. For they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And behold, a Greater than Jonah is here.