Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

^19 (A)Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
    ^(B)the wormwood and ^(C)the gall!
²⁰ My soul continually remembers it
    ^(D)and is bowed down within me.
²¹ But this I call to mind,
    and ^(E)therefore I have hope:

^22 (F)The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;^{[a]
    (G)}his mercies never come to an end;
²³ they are new ^(H)every morning;
    ^(I)great is your faithfulness.
^24 (J)“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
    ^(K)“therefore I will hope in him.”

²⁵ The Lord is good to those who ^(L)wait for him,
    to the soul who seeks him.
^26 (M)It is good that one should wait quietly
    for the salvation of the Lord.

⁷ Jerusalem remembers
    in the days of her affliction and wandering
^(A)all the precious things
    that were hers from ^(B)days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the foe,
    and there was none to help her,
her foes gloated over her;
    they ^(C)mocked at her downfall.

^8 (D)Jerusalem sinned grievously;
    therefore she became filthy;
all who honored her despise her,
    ^(E)for they have seen her nakedness;
she herself ^(F)groans
    and turns her face away.

⁹ Her uncleanness was ^(G)in her skirts;
    ^(H)she took no thought of her future;^[a]
therefore her fall is terrible;
    ^(I)she has no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
    for the enemy has ^(J)triumphed!”

¹⁰ The enemy has stretched out his hands
    over all her ^(K)precious things;
for she has seen ^(L)the nations
    enter her sanctuary,
those whom you ^(M)forbade
    to enter your congregation.

¹¹ All her people ^(N)groan
    as ^(O)they search for bread;
they trade their ^(P)treasures for ^(Q)food
    to revive their strength.
“Look, O Lord, and see,
    for I am despised.”

¹² “Is it nothing to you, all ^(R)you who pass by?
    ^(S)Look and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
    which was brought upon me,
which ^(T)the Lord inflicted
    on ^(U)the day of his fierce anger.

¹³ “From on high he ^(V)sent fire;
    into my bones^[b] he made it descend;
^(W)he spread a net for my feet;
    he turned me back;
^(X)he has left me stunned,
    faint all the day long.

¹⁴ “My transgressions were bound^[c] into ^(Y)a yoke;
    by his hand they were fastened together;
they were set upon my neck;
    he caused my strength to fail;
the Lord gave me into the hands
    of those whom I cannot withstand.

¹⁵ “The Lord rejected
    all my mighty men in my midst;
he summoned an assembly against me
    to crush my young men;
^(Z)the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
    the virgin daughter of Judah.