Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
80 Hear, O You Shepherd of Israel, You Who leads Joseph like sheep. Show Your brightness, You Who sits between the Cherubims.
2 Stir up Your strength before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh and come to help us.
8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt. You have cast out the heathen and planted it.
9 You made room for it, and caused it to take root, and it filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with the shadow of it; and the boughs thereof were like the pleasant cedars.
11 She stretched out her branches to the sea, and her boughs to the river.
12 Why have You broken down her hedges, so that all those who pass by the way have plucked her?
13 The wild boar, out of the wood, has destroyed it; and the wild beasts of the field have eaten it up.
14 Return, we beg You, O God of Hosts! Look down from Heaven and behold, and visit this vine
15 and the vineyard that Your right hand has planted, and the young vine which You made strong for Yourself.
16 It is burnt with fire and cut down. They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
17 Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, and upon the son of man whom You made strong for Your own self,
18 so we will not go back from You. Revive us, and we shall call upon Your Name.
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of Hosts! Cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved. To him who excels upon Gittith: A Psalm committed to Asaph
3 For lo, the LORD God of Hosts will take away from Jerusalem, and from Judah, the support and the strength, all the supply of bread, and all the supply of water,
2 the strong man and the man of war, the judge and the Prophet, the diviners and the aged,
3 the Captain of Fifty and the honorable and the counselor and the skilled craftsman and expert whisperer.
4 And I will appoint children to be their princes. And tyrants shall rule over them.
5 The people shall be oppressed by one another, and everyone by his neighbor. The children shall be insolent toward the aged, and the vile toward the honorable.
6 When everyone shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, and say, “You have clothing. You shall be our prince. And let this fall be under your hand.”
7 On that day he shall swear, saying, “I cannot be a helper. For there is neither bread in my house nor clothing. Make me no prince of the people.”
8 Doubtless, Jerusalem has fallen and Judah has fallen down, because their tongue and works are against the LORD, to provoke the Eyes of His Glory.
9 The look on their face testifies against them. Yea, they declare their sins. As Sodom, they do not hide them. Woe to their souls! For they have rewarded evil to themselves.
10 Say, “Surely it shall be well with the just. For they shall eat the fruit of their works.
11 “Woe be to the wicked! It shall be evil with him. For the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 “Children are extortioners of my people. And women have rule over them. O, my people! Those who lead you cause you to err and destroy the way of your paths.”
13 The LORD stands up to plead. Yea, He stands to judge the people.
14 The LORD shall enter into judgment with the ancients of His people and their princes. “For you have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 “What do you mean by beating My people to pieces and grinding the faces of the poor?” says the LORD, the LORD of Hosts.
16 The LORD also says, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks, and with wandering eyes, walking and skipping as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet,
17 “therefore the LORD shall make the heads of the daughters of Zion bald. And the LORD shall uncover their secret parts.
32 Now call to remembrance the days that are passed in which - after you had received light - you endured a great fight in afflictions;
33 partly while you were made a spectacle by both reproaches and afflictions and partly while you became companions of those who were so tossed to and fro.
34 For you sorrowed with me for my bonds; and also joyfully suffered the plundering of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have a better and an enduring substance in Heaven.
35 Therefore, do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.
36 For you need patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.
37 For yet a very little while and He Who shall come, will come, and will not wait.
38 For “The just shall live by faith. But if anyone withdraws himself, My soul shall have no pleasure in him.”
39 However, we are not those who withdraw into destruction, but those who follow faith to the preservation of the soul.
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