Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

³ Lord, my God, if I have done this thing,
    if there is injustice on my hands,
⁴ if I have rewarded those who did me good with evil,
    if I have plundered my enemy without justification,
⁵ then, let my enemy pursue me,
    let him overtake me,
        and let him trample my life to the ground.
Interlude
Let him put my honor into the dust.

⁶ Get up, Lord, in your anger!
    Rise up, because of the fury of my enemies;
Arouse yourself for me;
    you have ordained justice.
⁷ Let the assembly of the peoples gather around you,
    and you will sit^[d] high above them.
⁸ For the Lord will judge the peoples.
    Judge me according to my righteousness, Lord,
        and according to my integrity, Exalted One.

⁹ Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    but establish the righteous.
For you are the righteous God
    who discerns the inner thoughts.^[e]
10 God is my shield,^[f]
    the one who delivers the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is a righteous judge,
    a God who is angry with sinners^[g] every day.

¹² If the ungodly one^[h] doesn’t repent,
    God will sharpen his sword;
        he will string his bow and prepare it.
¹³ He prepares weapons of death for himself,
    he makes his arrows into fiery shafts.

¹⁴ But the wicked one^[i] travails with evil,
    he conceives malice and gives birth to lies.
¹⁵ He digs a pit, even excavates it;
    then he fell into the hole that he had made.
¹⁶ The trouble^[j] he planned will return on his own head,
    and his violence will descend on his skull.
¹⁷ But as for me,
    I will praise the Lord for his righteousness,
        and I will sing to the name of the Lord Most High.

⁷ “I therefore have withheld the rain from you
    three months before the harvest,
causing rain to come upon one city,
    but not upon another,
and upon one field
    but not upon another,
        so that it would wither.
⁸ So the people of^[c] two or three cities staggered away to another^[d] city
    in order to obtain drinking water,
but you have not returned to me,”
    declares the Lord.

⁹ “I afflicted you with blight and fungus;
    and the locust swarm devoured the harvest
        of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees,
    but you have not returned to me,”
        declares the Lord.

¹⁰ “I sent plagues among you as I did with Egypt.
    I killed your choicest young men with the sword.
I took your horses away from you.
    I filled your noses with the stench of your encampments,
but you have not returned to me,”
    declares the Lord.

¹¹ “I overthrew your cities,^[e]
    as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
You’ve become like a burning ember, snatched from the fire,
    but you have not returned to me,”
        declares the Lord.

¹² “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel.
    Because I am about to do this,
        prepare to be summoned to your God, Israel!”

¹³ Look! The one who crafts mountains,
    who creates the wind,
who reveals what he is thinking to mankind,
    who darkens the morning light,
who tramples down the high places of the land—
    the Lord, the God of the Heavenly Armies is his name.