Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer upon: The silent dove in a distant land, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.

¹ ¶ Be merciful unto me, O God, for man would swallow me up; he oppresses me fighting me daily.

² My enemies would daily swallow me up, for they are many that fight against me, O thou most High.

³ When I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

⁴ In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

⁵ Every day my life is filled with sorrow; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

⁶ They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps when they wait for my soul.

⁷ Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the peoples, O God.

⁸ ¶ Thou tellest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle; are they not in thy book?

⁹ When I cry unto thee, then shall my enemies be turned back; in this I know that God is for me.

¹⁰ In God I will praise his word; in the LORD I will praise his word.

¹¹ In God I have put my trust; I will not be afraid of what man can do unto me.

¹² Thy promises are upon me, O God; I will render praises unto thee.

¹³ For thou hast delivered my life from death; thou hast kept my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

¹¹ ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

¹² Then the LORD said unto me, Thou hast seen well, for I will hasten my word to perform it.

¹³ And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and its face is toward the north.

¹⁴ Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

¹⁵ For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and each one shall set his seat at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem and near all its walls round about and near all the cities of Judah.

¹⁶ And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me and have burned incense unto other gods and worshipped the works of their own hands.

¹⁷ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and thou shalt arise and speak unto them all that I shall command thee; do not fear them lest I confound thee before them.

¹⁸ For, behold, I have made thee this day as a defenced city and as an iron pillar and as a wall of brass upon all the earth against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

¹⁹ And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

⁴¹ ¶ And when he was come near, he beheld the city and wept over it,

⁴² saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

⁴³ For the days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and constrain thee on every side

⁴⁴ and shall cast thee down to the ground and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.