Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

³ You return man to the dust
    and say, “Return, you children of men.”
⁴ For a thousand years in Your sight
    are but as yesterday when it is past,
    or as a night watch in the night time.
⁵ You carry them away as with a flood;
    they are as a dream, like renewed grass in the morning:
⁶ In the morning it flourishes and grows up;
    in the evening it fades and withers.

¹³ Return, O Lord, how long?
    Have mercy on Your servants.
¹⁴ Satisfy us in the early morning with Your mercy,
    that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Make us glad according to the days that You have afflicted us,
    and the years that we have seen evil.
¹⁶ Let Your work be displayed to Your servants
    and Your glory to their children.

¹⁷ Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,
    and establish the work of our hands among us;
    yes, establish the work of our hands.

32 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
    hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
² My teaching will drop like the rain,
    my sayings will distill as the dew,
as the droplets on the grass,
    and as the showers on the herb.

³ For I will proclaim the name of the Lord:
    Ascribe greatness to our God!
⁴ He is the Rock; His work is perfect;
    for all His ways are just.
He is a God of faithfulness and without injustice;
    righteous and upright is He.

⁵ They have acted corruptly to Him;
    they are not His children, but blemished;
    they are a perverse and crooked generation.
⁶ Is this how you repay the Lord,
    you foolish and unwise people?
Is He not your father, who has bought you?
    Has He not made you, and established you?

⁷ Remember the days of old,
    consider the years of previous generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you;
    your elders, and they will tell you:
⁸ When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
    when He separated the sons of man,^[a]
He set the boundaries of the peoples
    according to the number of the children of Israel.
⁹ For the Lord’s portion is His people;
    Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.

¹⁰ He found him in a desert land
    and in the howling waste of a wilderness;
He led him about, He instructed him,
    He protected him like the pupil of His eye.
¹¹ Like an eagle stirs up her nest,
    that flutters over her young,
He spread out his wings and took him;
    He lifted him on His pinions;
¹² the Lord alone guided him,
    and there was no foreign god with him.

¹³ He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
    and he ate of the produce of the fields;
He made him suck honey out of the rock
    and oil out of the flinty rock,
¹⁴ butter from the herd,
    and milk from the flock,
    along with the fat of lambs,
and rams of the breed from Bashan,
    and goats,
    with the best of the kernels of wheat;
you drank the pure blood of the grape.