Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
74 O God, why have You rejected us forever? Is Your wrath kindled against the sheep of Your pasture?
2 Think upon the congregation which You have possessed of old; and on the rod of Your inheritance which You have redeemed; and on this Mount Zion wherein You have dwelt.
3 Lift up Your feet to perpetual desolations. The enemy has broken everything in the Sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries roar in the midst of Your congregation and set up their banners for signs.
5 He who lifted the axes upon the thick trees was renowned as one who brought a thing to perfection.
6 But now they break down the carved work thereof with axes and hammers.
7 They have cast Your Sanctuary into the fire and razed it to the ground. They have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
8 They said in their hearts, “Let us destroy them altogether.” They have burnt all the synagogues of God in the land.
9 We do not see our signs. There has not been one Prophet, nor is there any with us who knows how long.
10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach You? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your Name forever?
11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? Draw it out of Your bosom and consume them!
12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the Earth.
13 You divided the sea by Your power. You broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 You broke the head of Leviathan in pieces and gave him to be food for the people in wilderness.
15 You broke up the fountain and river. You dry up mighty rivers.
16 The day is Yours and the night is Yours. You have prepared the light and the Sun.
17 You have set all the borders of the Earth. You have made Summer and Winter.
18 Remember this: the enemy has reproached the LORD and the foolish people have blasphemed Your Name.
19 Do not give the life of Your turtledove to the beast. Do not forget the Congregation of Your poor, forever.
20 Consider Your Covenant; for the dark places of the Earth are full of the habitations of the cruel.
21 O, do not let the oppressed return ashamed! Let the poor and needy praise Your Name.
22 Arise, O God! Maintain Your own cause! Remember Your daily reproach by the foolish man.
23 Do not forget the voice of Your enemies. The tumult of those who rise against You ascends continually. To him who excels: Do not destroy. A Psalm, or song, committed to Asaph
27 On that day, the LORD, with His severe and great and mighty sword shall visit Leviathan, that piercing serpent, even Leviathan, that crooked serpent. And He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 “On that day, sing of the vineyard of red wine!
3 “I, the LORD, keep it. I will water it every moment, lest anyone hurt it. I will keep it night and day.
4 “Anger is not in Me. Who would set the briers and the thorns against Me in battle? I would go through them. I would burn them, together.
5 “Or will he feel My strength, so that he may make peace with Me, be at one with Me?”
6 Hereafter, Jacob shall take root. Israel shall flourish and grow. And the world shall be filled with fruit.
7 Has he struck him, as he struck those who struck him? Or is he killed according to the slaughter of those who were killed by him?
8 In measure, when it stretches forth, you will contend with it. He blows, with his rough wind, on the day of the east wind.
9 By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged. And this is all the fruit, the taking away of his sin, when he shall make all the stones of the altars as chalk stones broken in pieces. The groves and images shall not stand up.
10 Yet, the defensed city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness. There shall the calf feed. And there shall he lie and consume its branches.
11 When the boughs of it are dry, they shall be broken. The women come and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore, He Who made them shall not have compassion on them. And He Who formed them shall have no mercy on them.
12 And on that day shall the LORD thresh from the channel of the river to the river of Egypt. And you shall be gathered, one by one, O children of Israel.
13 Also on that day shall the great trumpet be blown. And those who perished in the land of Assyria shall come, and those who were chased into the land of Egypt. And they shall worship the LORD on the Holy Mount at Jerusalem.
45 He also went into the Temple and began to cast out those inside who sold and bought,
46 saying to them, “It is written! ‘My house is the house of prayer!’ But you have made it a den of thieves!”
47 And He taught daily in the Temple. And the chief priests and the scribes, and the chief of the people sought to destroy Him.
48 But they could not find what they might do to Him. For all the people hung upon Him when they heard Him.
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