Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

95 Come, let us sing for joy to Yahweh;
let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
² Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving;
with songs let us shout joyfully to him.
³ For Yahweh is the^[a] great God,
and the great king over all gods,
⁴ in whose hand are the unexplored places^[b] of the earth,
and the heights of the mountains are his,
⁵ to whom belongs the sea that he made, ^[c]
and the dry land that his hands formed.
⁶ Come in, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before Yahweh, our maker.
⁷ For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture
and the sheep of his hand.
Today^[d] if you will hear his voice:^[e]
8 “Do not harden your heart as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
⁹ when your ancestors^[f] tried me.
They put me to the test,
even though they had seen my work.
¹⁰ For forty years I loathed that generation,
and said, ‘They are a people whose heart wanders.
And my ways they do not know.’
¹¹ Therefore I swore in my anger,
‘They shall surely not enter into my rest.’”

⁸ You should not rejoice over me, O my enemy!
    When I fall I will stand up;
when I sit in darkness
    Yahweh will be a light for me.
⁹ I will bear the rage of Yahweh,
    for I have sinned against him,
until he pleads my cause
    and executes my justice.
He will bring me out to the light;
    I will see his righteousness.
¹⁰ Then my enemy will see,
    and shame will cover her who said to me,
“Where is Yahweh your God?”
    My eyes will look upon her;
now she will become a trampling place,
    like mud in the streets.
¹¹ A day for building your walls;
    on that day he will extend your boundary.
¹² On that day he will come to you
    from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
and from Egypt to the River,
    and from sea to sea
    and mountain to mountain.
¹³ But the earth will be a desolation
    because of its inhabitants,
    for the fruit of their deeds.
¹⁴ Shepherd your people with your staff,
    the flock of your inheritance,
those dwelling alone in a forest
    in the midst of Carmel.
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead,
    as in the days of old.
¹⁵ As in the days when you came out
    from the land of Egypt
    I will show him wondrous things.
¹⁶ The nations will see and be ashamed
    because of all their might.
They will lay the hand on the mouth;
    their ears will be deaf.
¹⁷ They will lick the dust like the serpent,
    like the crawling things of the earth.
They will come trembling from their strongholds
    to Yahweh our God.
    Let them fear and be afraid of you.
¹⁸ Who is a God like you, forgiving sin
    and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance?
He does not retain his anger forever,
    for he delights in loyal love.
¹⁹ He will again have compassion^[a] on us;
    he will trample our iniquities.
And you will hurl all their sins
    in the depths of the sea.
²⁰ You will show faithfulness to Jacob,
    and loyal love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our ancestors^[b]
    from the days of old.