Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁷ Do good to Your servant
that I may live and keep Your word.
¹⁸ Open my eyes, so I may behold
wonders from Your Torah.
¹⁹ I am a temporary dweller on earth—
do not hide Your mitzvot from me.
²⁰ My soul is crushed with longing
for Your judgments at all times.
²¹ You rebuke the proud, who are cursed,
who wander from Your mitzvot.
²² Take scorn and contempt away from me,
for I have kept Your testimonies.
²³ Though princes sit and talk against me,
Your servant meditates on Your decrees.
²⁴ For Your testimonies are my delight—
they are also my counselors.

²⁵ My soul clings to the dust.
Revive me according to Your word!
²⁶ I told of my ways and You answered me.
Teach me Your statutes.
²⁷ Help me discern the way of Your precepts,
so I may meditate on Your wonders.
²⁸ My soul weeps with grief.
Make me stand firm with Your word.
²⁹ Turn me away from the deceitful way,
and be gracious to me with Your Torah.
³⁰ I have chosen the way of faithfulness.
I have set my heart on Your judgments.
³¹ I cling to Your testimonies.
Adonai, do not put me to shame!
³² I run the course of Your mitzvot,
for You open wide my heart.

¹³ In that day, the fair virgins and the virile young men
will faint from thirst.
¹⁴ Those swearing by Samaria’s guilt will say,
‘As your gods live, Dan!’
or ‘As the way of Beersheba lives!’
But they will fall,
never to rise again.”

“Strike the tops of the pillars,
    so the porches shake!
Break all of them off at the head!
Then the last of them I will slay with the sword—
    none of them fleeing will escape
    and no fugitive will slip away.
² If they should dig down to Sheol,
from there My hand will take them.
If they should go up to heaven,
from there will I bring them down.
³ If they should hide themselves at the top of Carmel,
I will search them out and take them from there.
If they hide themselves from My eyes at the bottom of the sea,
from there I will command the sea serpent to bite them.
⁴ If they should go into captivity before their enemies,
from there I will command the sword to slay them.
I will set My eyes upon them for calamity
    and not for prosperity.”