Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

65 Praise waits for you, God, in Zion.
    Vows shall be performed to you.
² You who hear prayer,
    all men will come to you.
³ Sins overwhelmed me,
    but you atoned for our transgressions.
⁴ Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near,
    that he may live in your courts.
    We will be filled with the goodness of your house,
    your holy temple.
⁵ By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us,
    God of our salvation.
You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth,
    of those who are far away on the sea.
⁶ By your power, you form the mountains,
    having armed yourself with strength.
⁷ You still the roaring of the seas,
    the roaring of their waves,
    and the turmoil of the nations.
⁸ They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders.
    You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
⁹ You visit the earth, and water it.
    You greatly enrich it.
The river of God is full of water.
    You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
¹⁰ You drench its furrows.
    You level its ridges.
    You soften it with showers.
    You bless it with a crop.
¹¹ You crown the year with your bounty.
    Your carts overflow with abundance.
¹² The wilderness grasslands overflow.
    The hills are clothed with gladness.
¹³ The pastures are covered with flocks.
    The valleys also are clothed with grain.
They shout for joy!
    They also sing.

¹² “Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart,
    and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”
¹³ Tear your heart and not your garments,
    and turn to Yahweh, your God;
    for he is gracious and merciful,
    slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
    and relents from sending calamity.
¹⁴ Who knows? He may turn and relent,
    and leave a blessing behind him,
    even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
¹⁵ Blow the trumpet in Zion!
    Sanctify a fast.
    Call a solemn assembly.
¹⁶ Gather the people.
    Sanctify the assembly.
    Assemble the elders.
    Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts.
Let the bridegroom go out of his room,
    and the bride out of her chamber.
¹⁷ Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar,
    and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh,
    and don’t give your heritage to reproach,
    that the nations should rule over them.
Why should they say among the peoples,
    ‘Where is their God?’”
¹⁸ Then Yahweh was jealous for his land,
    and had pity on his people.
¹⁹ Yahweh answered his people,
    “Behold,^[a] I will send you grain, new wine, and oil,
    and you will be satisfied with them;
    and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
²⁰ But I will remove the northern army far away from you,
    and will drive it into a barren and desolate land,
    its front into the eastern sea,
    and its back into the western sea;
    and its stench will come up,
    and its bad smell will rise.”
Surely he has done great things.
²¹ Land, don’t be afraid.
    Be glad and rejoice, for Yahweh has done great things.
²² Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field;
    for the pastures of the wilderness spring up,
    for the tree bears its fruit.
    The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.