Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this,
If there is ^(D)injustice in my hands,
⁴ If I have ^(E)done evil to ^[d]my friend,
Or have ^(F)plundered ^[e]my enemy for no reason,
⁵ Let the enemy pursue ^[f]my soul and overtake ^[g]it;
And let him trample my life to the ground
And lay my glory in the dust. Selah

^6 (G)Arise, Lord, in Your anger;
^(H)Raise Yourself against ^(I)the rage of my enemies,
And ^(J)stir Yourself ^[h]for me; You have ordered judgment.
⁷ Let the assembly of the ^(K)peoples encompass You,
And return on high over it.
⁸ The Lord ^(L)judges the peoples;
^[i](M)Vindicate me, Lord, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me.
⁹ Please let ^(N)the evil of the wicked come to an end, but ^(O)establish the righteous;
For the righteous God ^(P)puts hearts and ^[j]minds to the test.
¹⁰ My ^(Q)shield is ^[k]with God,
Who ^(R)saves the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is a ^(S)righteous judge,
And a God who ^(T)shows indignation every day.

¹² If one ^(U)does not repent, He will ^(V)sharpen His sword;
He has ^(W)bent His bow and taken aim.
¹³ He has also prepared deadly weapons for Himself;
He makes His ^(X)arrows fiery shafts.
¹⁴ Behold, an evil person is pregnant with injustice,
And he ^(Y)conceives harm and gives birth to lies.
¹⁵ He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has ^(Z)fallen into the hole which he made.
¹⁶ His ^(AA)harm will return on his own head,
And his ^(AB)violence will descend on the top of his own head.

¹⁷ I will give thanks to the Lord ^(AC)according to His righteousness
And will ^(AD)sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

⁶ “But I gave you also ^(A)cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
And lack of bread in all your places;
Yet you have ^(B)not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
⁷ “Furthermore, I ^(C)withheld the rain from you
While there were still three months until harvest.
Then I would send rain on one city,
But on ^(D)another city I would not send rain;
One part would be rained on,
While the part not rained on would dry up.
⁸ So the people of two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink ^(E)water,
But would ^(F)not be satisfied;
Yet you have ^(G)not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
⁹ “I ^(H)struck you with scorching wind and mildew;
The ^(I)caterpillar was devouring
Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees;
Yet you have ^(J)not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
¹⁰ “I sent a ^(K)plague among you ^[a]as in Egypt;
I ^(L)killed your young men with the sword, along with your ^(M)captured horses,
And I made the ^(N)stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils;
Yet you have ^(O)not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
¹¹ “I overthrew you, as ^(P)God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
And you were like a ^(Q)log snatched from a fire;
Yet you have ^(R)not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.
¹² “Therefore so I will do to you, Israel;
Because I will do this to you,
Prepare to ^(S)meet your God, Israel.”
¹³ For behold, He who ^(T)forms mountains and ^(U)creates the wind,
And ^(V)declares to a person what are His thoughts,
He who ^(W)makes dawn into darkness
And ^(X)treads on the high places of the earth,
^(Y)The Lord God of armies is His name.