Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

14 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt.
They do abominable deeds.
There is none who does good.
² Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind
to see whether there is one who has insight,
one who cares about God.
³ All have gone astray;
they are altogether corrupt.
There is not one who does good;
there is not even one.
⁴ All who do evil—do they not know,
they who eat my people as though they were eating bread?
They do not call on Yahweh.
⁵ There they are very fearful^[b]
because God is with the generation of the righteous.
⁶ You would put to shame the plan of the poor,
because^[c] Yahweh is his refuge.
⁷ Oh that from Zion^[d] would come salvation for Israel!
When Yahweh returns the fortunes of his people,
Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be happy.

²⁰ Lift up your eyes
    and see those coming from the north.
Where is the flock that was given to you,
    your magnificent flock?^[a]
21 What will you say when he sets over you—
    and you have taught them—allies as head over you?
Will not labor pains take hold of you,
    like a woman giving birth?
²² And if you say in your heart,
    ‘Why have these things happened to me?’
Because of the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered;
    your heels have endured violence.
²³ Can a Cushite change his skin,
    or a leopard his spots?
Then you also will be able to do good,
    who are accustomed to doing evil.
²⁴ And I will scatter them
    like stubble scattered by the wind of the desert.^[b]
25 This is your lot,
    the portion of your measure from me,” declares^[c] Yahweh,
“because you have forgotten me,
    and you have trusted in the lie.
²⁶ So in turn I will bare your skirts over your face,
    and your shame will become visible.
²⁷ Your adulteries, and your neighings,
    the shameful behavior of your fornications
on the hills in the countryside,
    I have seen your abominations.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
    How long will you continue to be unclean?^[d]”