Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
We Wept When We Remembered Zion
137 By the (A)rivers of Babylon,
There we sat and also (B)wept,
When we remembered Zion.
2 Upon the [a](C)willows in the midst of it
We (D)hung our lyres.
3 For there our captors (E)asked us about the words of a song,
And (F)our tormentors asked joyfully, saying,
“Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.”
4 How can we sing a song of (G)Yahweh
In a foreign land?
5 If I (H)forget you, O Jerusalem,
May my right hand [b]forget her skill.
6 May my (I)tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
If I do not remember you,
If I do not [c](J)exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of (K)Edom
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said, “Tear it down! Tear it down
(L)To its very foundation.”
8 O daughter of Babylon, you (M)devastated one,
How blessed will be the one who (N)repays you
With [d]the recompense with which you have recompensed us.
9 How blessed will be the one who seizes and (O)dashes your infants
Against the cliff.
Ayin
16 For these things I (A)am weeping;
[a]My eyes run down with water;
Because far from me is a (B)comforter,
One who restores my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.”
Pe
17 Zion (C)stretches out her hands;
There is no one to comfort her;
Yahweh has (D)commanded concerning Jacob
That the ones round about him should be his adversaries;
(E)Jerusalem has become an impure thing among them.
Tsadhe
18 “Yahweh is (F)righteous;
For I have (G)rebelled against His [b]command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And (H)behold my [c]pain;
(I)My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.
Qoph
19 I (J)called to my lovers, but they deceived me;
My (K)priests and my elders breathed their last in the city
While they sought food for themselves in order to (L)restore their souls.
Resh
20 See, O Yahweh, for I am in distress;
My [d](M)inmost being is greatly disturbed;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very (N)rebellious.
In the street the sword bereaves;
In the house it is like death.
Shin
21 They have heard that I (O)am sighing;
There is no one to comfort me;
All my enemies have heard of the [e]evil done to me;
They (P)rejoice that You have done it.
You have brought the day which You have proclaimed,
So that they will become (Q)like me.
Tav
22 Let all their evil come before You;
And (R)deal severely with them as You have dealt severely with me
For all my transgressions;
For my groans are great and my heart is faint.”
2 (A)Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter (B)various [a]trials, 3 knowing that (C)the testing of your (D)faith brings about (E)perseverance. 4 And let (F)perseverance have its perfect work, so that you may be [b](G)perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
5 But if any of you (H)lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and [c]without reproach, and (I)it will be given to him. 6 But he must (J)ask in faith, (K)doubting nothing, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, (L)driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, 8 being a [d](M)double-minded man, (N)unstable in all his ways.
9 (O)But the [e]brother of humble circumstances is to boast in his high position; 10 and the rich man is to boast in his humiliation, because (P)like [f]flowering grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with [g](Q)a scorching heat and (R)withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.
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