Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

48 ⁽⁰⁾ A song. A psalm of the descendants of Korach:

^2 (1) Great is Adonai
and greatly to be praised,
in the city of our God,
his holy mountain,
^3 (2) beautiful in its elevation,
the joy of all the earth,
Mount Tziyon, in the far north,
the city of the great king.
^4 (3) In its citadels God
has been revealed as a strong defense.
^5 (4) For the kings met by agreement;
together they advanced.
^6 (5) They saw and were filled with consternation;
terrified, they took to flight.
^7 (6) Trembling took hold of them,
pains like those of a woman in labor,
^8 (7) as when the wind out of the east
wrecks the “Tarshish” ships.
^9 (8) We heard it, and now we see for ourselves
in the city of Adonai-Tzva’ot,
in the city of our God.
May God establish it forever. (Selah)

^10 (9) God, within your temple
we meditate on your grace.
^11 (10) God, your praise, like your name,
extends to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
^12 (11) Let Mount Tziyon rejoice,
let the daughters of Y’hudah be glad,
because of your judgment [on the enemy].

^13 (12) Walk through Tziyon, go all around it;
count how many towers it has.
^14 (13) Note its ramparts, pass through its citadels,
so that you can tell generations to come
^15 (14) that such is God, our God forever;
he will guide us eternally.

¹⁸ Then Adonai will become jealous for his land
and have pity on his people.
¹⁹ Here is how Adonai will answer his people:
“I will send you grain, wine and olive oil,
enough to satisfy you;
and no longer will I make you
a mockery among the Goyim.
²⁰ No, I will take the northerner away,
far away from you,
and drive him to a land
that is waste and barren;
with his vanguard toward the eastern sea
and his rearguard toward the western sea,
his stench and his rottenness will rise,
because he has done great things.”

²¹ Don’t fear, O soil; be glad! rejoice!
for Adonai has done great things.
²² Don’t be afraid, wild animals;
for the desert pastures are green,
the trees are putting out their fruit,
the fig tree and vine are giving full yield.
²³ Be glad, people of Tziyon!
rejoice in Adonai your God!
For he is giving you
the right amount of rain in the fall,
he makes the rain come down for you,
the fall and spring rains — this is what he does first.
²⁴ Then the floors will be full of grain
and the vats overflow with wine and olive oil.

²⁵ “I will restore to you the years that the locusts ate,
the grasshoppers, shearer-worms and cutter-worms,
my great army that I sent against you.
²⁶ You will eat until you are satisfied
and will praise the name of Adonai your God,
who has done with you such wonders.
Then my people will never again be shamed.
²⁷ You will know that I am with Isra’el
and that I am Adonai your God,
and that there is no other.
Then my people will never again be shamed.

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard
and no one’s heart has imagined
all the things that God has prepared
for those who love him.”^[a]