Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

1 Happy are those who don’t listen to the wicked,
    who don’t go where sinners go,
    who don’t do what evil people do.
² They love the Lord’s teachings,
    and they think about those teachings day and night.
³ They are strong, like a tree planted by a river.
    The tree produces fruit in season,
    and its leaves don’t die.
Everything they do will succeed.

17 “The sin of the people of Judah is written with an iron tool.
    Their sins were cut with a hard point into the stone that is their hearts.
    Their sins were cut into the corners of their altars.
² Even their children remember
    their altars to idols and their Asherah idols
beside the green trees
    and on the high hills.
³ My mountain in the open country
    and your wealth and treasures
I will give away to other people.
    I will give away the places of worship in your country,
    because you sinned by worshiping there.
⁴ You will lose the land I gave you,
    and it is your own fault.
I will let your enemies take you as their slaves
    to a land you have never known.
This is because you have made my anger burn like a hot fire,
    and it will burn forever.”