Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

⁽¹⁾ I lift my inner being to you, Adonai;
² I trust you, my God.
Don’t let me be disgraced,
don’t let my enemies gloat over me.
³ No one waiting for you will be disgraced;
disgrace awaits those who break faith for no reason.

⁴ Make me know your ways, Adonai,
teach me your paths.
⁵ Guide me in your truth, and teach me;
for you are the God who saves me,
my hope is in you all day long.
⁶ Remember your compassion and grace, Adonai;
for these are ages old.
⁷ Don’t remember my youthful sins or transgressions;
but remember me according to your grace
for the sake of your goodness, Adonai.

⁸ Adonai is good, and he is fair;
this is why he teaches sinners the way [to live],
⁹ leads the humble to do what is right
and teaches the humble [to live] his way.
¹⁰ All Adonai’s paths are grace and truth
to those who keep his covenant and instructions.

¹⁶ “‘But they and our ancestors were arrogant;
they stiffened their necks and ignored your mitzvot;
¹⁷ they refused to listen and paid no attention
to the wonders you had done among them.
No, they stiffened their necks, and in their rebellion
appointed a leader to return them to their slavery.
But because you are a God of forgiveness,
merciful, full of compassion,
slow to grow angry and full of grace,
you did not abandon them.
¹⁸ Even when they cast themselves a metal calf,
saying of it, “This is your god
that brought you up from Egypt,”
and committing other gross provocations;
¹⁹ still, you, in your great compassion,
did not abandon them in the desert.
The column of cloud did not leave them by day;
it kept leading them along the way.
By night the column of fire
kept showing them light and the path to take.
²⁰ You also gave your good Spirit to teach them,
did not withhold man from their mouths
and provided them water to quench their thirst.
²¹ Yes, forty years you sustained them in the desert;
they lacked nothing —
their clothes did not wear out;
their feet did not swell up.

²² “‘You gave them kingdoms and peoples;
you even gave them extra land,
so that they took possession of the land of Sichon,
also the land of the king of Heshbon
and the land of ‘Og king of Bashan.
²³ You made their children as numerous
as the countless stars in the sky.

“‘Then you brought them into the land
about which you had said to their fathers
that they should go in and take possession of it.
²⁴ So the children went in and possessed the land,
as you subdued ahead of them
the Kena‘ani living in the land,
and handed them over to them,
along with their kings and the peoples of the land,
for them to do with as they wished.
²⁵ They took fortified cities and fertile land,
possessed houses full of all kinds of good things,
dug-out cisterns, vineyards, olive groves,
fruit trees in plenty;
so they ate their fill and grew robust,
luxuriating in your great goodness.