Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this,
    if there is iniquity in the palms of my hands,
⁴ if I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me,
    or have delivered my adversary without cause,
⁵ then may the enemy pursue my life and overtake me;
    may my enemy trample my life to the ground,
    and lay my honor in the dust. Selah

⁶ Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
    rise up because of the rage of my adversaries,
    and awaken Yourself for me; You have commanded justice.
⁷ The congregation of the peoples surround You;
    return above it to heaven’s heights.
⁸     The Lord will judge the peoples;
grant me justice, O Lord, according to my righteousness,
    and according to my integrity within me.
⁹ May the evil of the wicked come to an end;
    may You vindicate the righteous one;
You are a righteous God who examines the minds and hearts.

¹⁰ My defense depends on God,
    who saves the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is a righteous judge,
    and God has indignation every day.
¹² If one does not repent,
    God will sharpen His sword;
    He has bent His bow and made it ready.
¹³ He has prepared for Himself deadly weapons;
    He makes His arrows flaming shafts.

¹⁴ The wicked man writhes in pain of iniquity;
    he has conceived mischief and brought forth falsehood.
¹⁵ He who digs a hole and hollows it
    will then fall into his own pit.
¹⁶ His mischief will return on his own head;
    his violence will descend on the crown of his own head.

¹⁷ I will thank the Lord according to His righteousness,
    and will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

⁶ Though I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities
    and lack of food in all your places,
    yet you did not return to Me,
    says the Lord.

⁷ I also withheld the rain from you,
    when there were still three months to the harvest.
I would send rain on one town,
    and send no rain on another town.
One field would receive rain,
    but another field without rain would wither.
⁸ So two or three towns wandered to one town to drink water,
    but they were not satisfied;
    yet you did not return to Me,
    says the Lord.

⁹ I struck you with blight and mildew.
    Locusts devoured your many gardens and vineyards,
your fig trees and olive trees;
    yet you did not return to Me,
    says the Lord.

¹⁰ Pestilence like that of Egypt
    I sent against you.
By the sword I killed your young men;
    your horses were taken captive.
The stench of your camps I brought up into your nostrils;
    yet you did not return to Me,
    says the Lord.

¹¹ I destroyed some of you,
    as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
You were like a firebrand plucked out of the fire;
    yet you did not return to Me,
    says the Lord.

¹² Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel,
    and because I will do this to you,
    prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

¹³ The One who forms the mountains
    and creates the wind,
    who reveals His thoughts to man,
who turns the darkness into dawn
    and strides on the heights of the earth—
    the Lord, the God of Hosts, is His name.