Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

³ O Lord my God, ^(F)if I have done this:
If there is ^(G)iniquity in my hands,
⁴ If I have repaid evil to him who was at peace with me,
Or ^(H)have plundered my enemy without cause,
⁵ Let the enemy pursue me and overtake me;
Yes, let him trample my life to the earth,
And lay my honor in the dust. Selah

⁶ Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
^(I)Lift Yourself up because of the rage of my enemies;
^(J)Rise up ^[b]for me to the judgment You have commanded!
⁷ So the congregation of the peoples shall surround You;
For their sakes, therefore, return on high.
⁸ The Lord shall judge the peoples;
^(K)Judge me, O Lord, ^(L)according to my righteousness,
And according to my integrity within me.

⁹ Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
But establish the just;
^(M)For the righteous God tests the hearts and ^[c]minds.
^10 [d]My defense is of God,
Who saves the ^(N)upright in heart.

¹¹ God is a just judge,
And God is angry with the wicked every day.
¹² If he does not turn back,
He will ^(O)sharpen His sword;
He bends His bow and makes it ready.
¹³ He also prepares for Himself instruments of death;
He makes His arrows into fiery shafts.

^14 (P)Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity;
Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood.
¹⁵ He made a pit and dug it out,
^(Q)And has fallen into the ditch which he made.
^16 (R)His trouble shall return upon his own head,
And his violent dealing shall come down on ^[e]his own crown.

¹⁷ I will praise the Lord according to His righteousness,
And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

⁷ “I also withheld rain from you,
When there were still three months to the harvest.
I made it rain on one city,
I withheld rain from another city.
One part was rained upon,
And where it did not rain the part withered.
⁸ So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,
But they were not satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.

⁹ “I^(B) blasted you with blight and mildew.
When your gardens increased,
Your vineyards,
Your fig trees,
And your olive trees,
^(C)The locust devoured them;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.

¹⁰ “I sent among you a plague ^(D)after the manner of Egypt;
Your young men I killed with a sword,
Along with your captive horses;
I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.

¹¹ “I overthrew some of you,
As God overthrew ^(E)Sodom and Gomorrah,
And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.

¹² “Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel;
Because I will do this to you,
^(F)Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

¹³ For behold,
He who forms mountains,
And creates the ^[b]wind,
^(G)Who declares to man what ^[c]his thought is,
And makes the morning darkness,
^(H)Who treads the high places of the earth—
^(I)The Lord God of hosts is His name.