Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

^7 (A)Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud;
    be gracious to me and answer me!
⁸ You have said, ^(B)“Seek^[a] my face.”
My heart says to you,
    “Your face, Lord, do I seek.”^{[b]
9     (C)}Hide not your face from me.
Turn not your servant away in anger,
    O you who have been my help.
Cast me not off; forsake me not,
    ^(D)O God of my salvation!
¹⁰ For ^(E)my father and my mother have forsaken me,
    but the Lord will ^(F)take me in.

^11 (G)Teach me your way, O Lord,
    and lead me on ^(H)a level path
    because of my enemies.
^12 (I)Give me not up to the will of my adversaries;
    for ^(J)false witnesses have risen against me,
    and they ^(K)breathe out violence.

¹³ I believe that I shall look^[c] upon ^(L)the goodness of the Lord
    in ^(M)the land of the living!
^14 (N)Wait for the Lord;
    ^(O)be strong, and let your heart take courage;
    wait for the Lord!

² “Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob,
    listen to Israel your father.

⁸ “Judah, ^(A)your brothers shall praise you;
    ^(B)your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
    ^(C)your father's sons shall bow down before you.
⁹ Judah is ^(D)a lion's cub;
    from the prey, my son, you have gone up.
^(E)He stooped down; he crouched as a lion
    and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?
¹⁰ The ^(F)scepter shall not depart from Judah,
    nor the ruler's staff ^(G)from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him;^[a]
    and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
¹¹ Binding his foal to the vine
    and his donkey's colt to the choice vine,
he has washed his garments in wine
    and his vesture in the blood of grapes.
¹² His ^(H)eyes are darker than wine,
    and his teeth whiter than milk.

^13 (I)“Zebulun shall dwell at the ^(J)shore of the sea;
    he shall become a haven for ships,
    and his border shall be at Sidon.

^21 (A)“Naphtali is a doe let loose
    that bears beautiful fawns.^[a]

²² “Joseph is ^(B)a fruitful bough,
    a fruitful bough by a spring;
    his branches run over the wall.^[b]
23 The archers ^(C)bitterly attacked him,
    shot at him, and harassed him severely,
²⁴ yet ^(D)his bow remained unmoved;
    his arms^[c] were made agile
by the hands of the ^(E)Mighty One of Jacob
    (from there is ^(F)the Shepherd,^{[d] (G)}the Stone of Israel),
^25 (H)by the God of your father who will help you,
    by ^(I)the Almighty^{[e] (J)}who will bless you
    with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that crouches beneath,
    blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
²⁶ The blessings of your father
    are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents,
    up to the bounties ^(K)of the everlasting hills.^[f]
May they be ^(L)on the head of Joseph,
    and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.

^68 (C)“Blessed be the Lord ^(D)God of Israel,
    for he has ^(E)visited and ^(F)redeemed his people
⁶⁹ and ^(G)has raised up ^(H)a horn of salvation for us
    ^(I)in the house of his servant David,
^70 (J)as ^(K)he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
^71 (L)that we should be saved from our enemies
    and from the hand of all who hate us;
^72 (M)to show the mercy promised to our fathers
    and ^(N)to remember his holy ^(O)covenant,
^73 (P)the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
⁷⁴     that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him ^(Q)without fear,
^{75     (R)}in holiness and righteousness before him ^(S)all our days.
⁷⁶ And you, child, will be called ^(T)the prophet of ^(U)the Most High;
    for ^(V)you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
⁷⁷ to give knowledge of salvation to his people
    ^(W)in the forgiveness of their sins,
⁷⁸ because of the ^(X)tender mercy of our God,
    whereby ^(Y)the sunrise shall ^(Z)visit us^{[a] (AA)}from on high
⁷⁹ to ^(AB)give light to ^(AC)those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
    to guide our feet into ^(AD)the way of ^(AE)peace.”