Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

7 Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you.
    Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
² lest they tear apart my soul like a lion,
    ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
³ Yahweh, my God, if I have done this,
    if there is iniquity in my hands,
⁴ if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me
    (yes, I have plundered him who without cause was my adversary),
⁵     let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;
yes, let him tread my life down to the earth,
    and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
⁶ Arise, Yahweh, in your anger.
    Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries.
Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
⁷     Let the congregation of the peoples surround you.
    Rule over them on high.
⁸ Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples.
    Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness,
    and to my integrity that is in me.
⁹ Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
    but establish the righteous;
    their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
¹⁰ My shield is with God,
    who saves the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is a righteous judge,
    yes, a God who has indignation every day.
¹² If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword;
    he has bent and strung his bow.
¹³ He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death.
    He makes ready his flaming arrows.
¹⁴ Behold,^[a] he travails with iniquity.
    Yes, he has conceived mischief,
    and brought out falsehood.
¹⁵ He has dug a hole,
    and has fallen into the pit which he made.
¹⁶ The trouble he causes shall return to his own head.
    His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
¹⁷ I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness,
    and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.

⁶ “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
    and lack of bread in every town;
    yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
⁷ “I also have withheld the rain from you,
    when there were yet three months to the harvest;
    and I caused it to rain on one city,
    and caused it not to rain on another city.
One field was rained on,
    and the field where it didn’t rain withered.
⁸ So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water,
    and were not satisfied;
    yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
⁹ “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards,
    and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees;
    yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
¹⁰ “I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt.
    I have slain your young men with the sword,
    and have carried away your horses.
I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp,
    yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
¹¹ “I have overthrown some of you,
    as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire;
    yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
¹² “Therefore I will do this to you, Israel;
    because I will do this to you,
    prepare to meet your God, Israel.
¹³ For, behold, he who forms the mountains, creates the wind, declares to man what is his thought,
    who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth:
    Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”