Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

^6 (5) Adonai, in the heavens is your grace;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
^7 (6) Your righteousness is like the mountains of God,
your judgments are like the great deep.
You save man and beast, Adonai.
^8 (7) How precious, God, is your grace!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings,
^9 (8) they feast on the rich bounty of your house,
and you have them drink from the stream of your delights.
^10 (9) For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.

“If a man divorces his wife,
and she leaves him and marries another man,
then if the first one marries her again,
that land will be completely defiled.
But you prostituted yourself to many lovers,
yet you want to return to me?” says Adonai.
² “Raise your eyes to the bare hills, take a look:
where have you not had sex?
You sat by the roadsides waiting for them
like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land
with your prostitution and wickedness.
³ For this reason the showers have been withheld,
there has been no rain in the spring;
still you maintain a whore’s brazen look
and refuse to be ashamed.
⁴ Didn’t you just now cry to me,
‘My father, you are my friend from my youth’? —
⁵ [thinking,] ‘He won’t bear a grudge forever, will he?
He wouldn’t maintain it right to the end.’
You say this, but you keep doing evil things,
you just do whatever you want.”