Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

“I will give You thanks, Adonai,
for though You were angry with me,
Your anger is turned away,
and You comfort me.
² Behold, God is my salvation!
I will trust and will not be afraid.
For the Lord Adonai is my strength
    and my song.
He also has become my salvation.”^[a]
3 With joy you will draw water
from the wells of salvation.
⁴ In that day you will say:
“Give thanks to Adonai.
Proclaim His Name!
Declare His works to the peoples,
so they remember His exalted Name.
⁵ Sing to Adonai, for He has done gloriously.
Let this be known in all the earth.
⁶ Cry out and shout, inhabitant of Zion!
For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”

59 Behold, Adonai’s hand is not too short to save,
nor His ear too dull to hear.
² Rather, your iniquities have made a separation
between you and your God.
Your sins have hidden His face from you,
so that He does not hear.
³ For your hands are defiled with blood
    and your fingers with iniquity.
Your lips have spoken lies,
    your tongue mutters wickedness.
⁴ No one sues justly,
and none pleads a case honestly.
They trust in confusion and speak lies.
They conceive mischief,
    and bring forth iniquity.
⁵ They hatch adders’ eggs,
and weave the spider’s web—
whoever eats their eggs dies;
crack one open, a viper breaks out.
⁶ Their webs will not become clothing,
nor will they cover themselves with what they make.
Their deeds are works of iniquity,
    an act of violence is in their hands.
⁷ Their feet run after evil.
They rush to shed innocent blood.^[a]
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.
Violence and ruin are on their highways.
⁸ They do not know the path of peace,
and there is no justice in their tracks.
They have made their paths crooked.
Whoever walks in them will not experience shalom.