Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹ Halleluyah! Praise Adonai, O my soul!
² I will praise Adonai all my life.
I will praise my God yet again.
³ Do not put your trust in princes—
in man, in whom there is no salvation.
⁴ His breath departs,
he returns to his dust.
In that very day his plans perish.
⁵ Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in Adonai his God,
⁶ who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
who keeps truth forever,
⁷ who executes justice for the oppressed,
who gives bread to the hungry.
Adonai sets the prisoners free.
⁸ Adonai opens the eyes of the blind.^[a]
Adonai raises up those who are bowed down.
Adonai loves the righteous.
⁹ Adonai protects outsiders,
upholds the fatherless and the widow,
but thwarts the way of the wicked.
¹⁰ Adonai will reign forever,
your God, O Zion, from generation to generation.
Halleluyah!

¹⁷ “Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
instead of iron I will bring silver,
instead of wood, bronze,
and instead of stones, iron.
I will make shalom your overseer,
and righteousness your taskmasters.
¹⁸ No more will violence be heard in your land,
    devastation nor destruction within your borders.
But you will call your walls Salvation
    and your gates Praise.
¹⁹ No more will the sun be your light by day,
nor the glow of the moon be your light,
but Adonai will be your everlasting light,
and your God for your glory.^[a]
20 No more will your sun set,
    nor will your moon wane,
for Adonai will be your everlasting light,
    as the days of your mourning end.^[b]
21 Then your people will all be righteous.
They will possess the land forever—
the branch of His planting,
    the work of My hands—
that I may be glorified.
²² The smallest will become a thousand,
    and the least a mighty nation.
I, Adonai, will hasten it in its time.”