Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁹ O God, I will sing a new song to you.
With a lyre of ten strings I will sing praise to you,
¹⁰ who gives victory to kings,
who rescues David his servant
from the evil sword.
¹¹ Rescue me and deliver me
from the hand of foreigners,
whose mouth speaks falsely,
and whose right hand is a false right hand,
¹² that our sons may be like plants,
full grown in their youth,
our daughters like corner pillars,
carved in the style of a palace,
¹³ that our granaries may be full,
providing produce of all kinds,^[a]
that our sheep may produce by the thousands,
by the tens of thousands in our open fields,
¹⁴ that our cattle may be pregnant;
that there be no breach in our walls,
and no going out in exile,
and no outcry in our plazas.
¹⁵ Blessed are the people who have it thus.
Blessed are the people whose God is Yahweh.

⁶ What is this coming up from the desert
    like a column of smoke,
perfumed with myrrh and frankincense
    from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
⁷ Look! It is Solomon’s portable couch!^[a]
    Sixty mighty men surround it,^[b]
        the mighty men of Israel.
⁸ All of them wield swords;^[c]
    they are trained in warfare,^[d]
each with his sword at his thigh
    to guard against terror^[e] in the night.
⁹ King Solomon^[f] made for himself a sedan chair
    from the wood of Lebanon.
¹⁰ He made its column of silver, its back^[g] of gold, its seat of purple;
    its interior is inlaid with leather^[h] by the maidens of Jerusalem.^[i]
11 Come out and look, O maidens of Zion,^[j] at King Solomon,^[k]
    at the crown with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
    on the day of the joy of his heart!