Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

48 Yahweh is great and very worthy of praise
in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.^[b]
2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
is Mount Zion,^[c] in the far north,^[d]
the city of the great king.
³ God is in her citadels;
he is known as a high stronghold.
⁴ For see, the kings assembled;^[e]
they advanced together.
⁵ They themselves saw^[f] it, so they were astonished.
They were terrified; they ran off.
⁶ Trembling seized them there—
pain as of a woman in labor.
⁷ With an east wind
you shatter^[g] the ships of Tarshish.^[h]
8 As we have heard, so we have seen
in the city of Yahweh of hosts, in the city of our God.
God will establish her forever. Selah
⁹ We have pondered your loyal love, O God,
in the midst of your temple.
¹⁰ As is your name, O God, so is your praise
to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
¹¹ Let Mount Zion^[i] rejoice;
let the daughters of Judah rejoice
because of your judgments.
¹² Walk about Zion and circle it;
count her towers.
¹³ Consider well^[j] her ramparts.
Go through her citadels
so that you can tell the next generation
¹⁴ that this is God, our God forever and ever.
He himself^[k] will guide us until death.

¹⁸ Then Yahweh became jealous for his land
    and took pity on his people.
¹⁹ And Yahweh answered and said to his people,
    “Look at me, I am sending to you
grain, new wine, and olive oil,
    and you will be satisfied by it.
I will not give you over any more
    as a disgrace among the nations.
²⁰ The northerners^[a]
    I will remove from you;
I will drive them to a desert
    and desolate land,
its^[b] front to the eastern sea,
    and its rear into the western sea;
its stench and odor will rise up
    because he^[c] has done great things.
²¹ Do not fear, O land,
    rejoice and be glad,
        because Yahweh has done great things.
²² Do not fear, wild animals of the field,
    because the pastures of the desert have put forth new green shoots,
because the tree has produced its fruit,
    the fig tree and the vine
        have yielded their produce.
²³ Be glad, O children of Zion,
    be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God,
because he has given for you
    the autumn rains for your righteousness,^[d]
        and he has poured down^[e] for you rainwater,
the autumn and spring rains, as before.
²⁴ The threshing floors will be full with grain,
    and the vats will overflow
        with new wine and olive oil.
²⁵ I will repay you the years
    that the locust has eaten,
the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,
    my mighty troops that I sent against you.
²⁶ And you will eat abundantly and be satisfied,
    and praise the name of Yahweh your God,
    who has dealt with you wondrously.^[f]
My people will never be ashamed.^[g]
27 And you will know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and I am Yahweh,
    your God, and there is no other.
My people will never be ashamed again.^[h]

^28 [i] And it will happen afterward thus:
    I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,
    and your elders will dream dreams;
your young men shall see visions.
²⁹ And also on the male slaves and on the female slaves,
    I will pour out my Spirit in those days.