Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

85 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. A psalm of the sons of Korach:

^2 (1) Adonai, you have shown favor to your land;
you have restored the fortunes of Ya‘akov,
^3 (2) taken away the guilt of your people,
pardoned all their sin, (Selah)
^4 (3) withdrawn all your wrath,
turned from your fierce anger.

^5 (4) Restore us, God of our salvation,
renounce your displeasure with us.
^6 (5) Are you to stay angry with us forever?
Will your fury last through all generations?

^7 (6) Won’t you revive us again,
so your people can rejoice in you?
^8 (7) Show us your grace, Adonai;
grant us your salvation.

^9 (8) I am listening. What will God, Adonai, say?
For he will speak peace to his people,
to his holy ones —
but only if they don’t relapse into folly.
^10 (9) His salvation is near for those who fear him,
so that glory will be in our land.
^11 (10) Grace and truth have met together;
justice and peace have kissed each other.
^12 (11) Truth springs up from the earth,
and justice looks down from heaven.
^13 (12) Adonai will also grant prosperity;
our land will yield its harvest.
^14 (13) Justice will walk before him
and make his footsteps a path.

^3 (1) “Say to your brothers, ‘Ammi [My People]!’
and to your sisters, ‘Ruchamah [Pitied]!’
^4 (2) Rebuke your mother, rebuke her;
for she isn’t my wife, and I’m not her husband.
She must remove her whoring from her face,
and her adulteries from between her breasts.
^5 (3) Otherwise, I will strip her naked
and place her as she was the day she was born,
make her like a desert, place her like a dry land
and kill her with thirst.
^6 (4) I will have no pity on her children,
for they are children of whoring —
^7 (5) their mother prostituted herself,
she who conceived them behaved shamelessly;
she said, ‘I will pursue my lovers,
who give me my food and water,
wool, flax, olive oil and wine.’
^8 (6) Therefore, I will block her way with thorns
and put up a hedge so she can’t find her paths.
^9 (7) She will pursue her lovers but not catch them.
She will seek them but won’t find them.
Then she will say, ‘I will go
and return to my first husband;
because things were better for me then
than they are now.’
^10 (8) For she doesn’t know it was I who gave her
the grain, the wine and the oil;
I who increased her silver and gold,
which they used for Ba‘al.
^11 (9) So I will take back my grain at harvest-time
and my wine in its season;
I will snatch away my wool and flax,
given to cover her naked body.
^12 (10) Now I will uncover her shame,
while her lovers watch;
and no one will save her from me.
^13 (11) I will end her happiness,
her festivals, Rosh-Hodesh, and shabbats,
and all her designated times.
^14 (12) I will ravage her vines and fig trees,
of which she says, ‘These are my wages
that my lovers have given me.’
But I will turn them into a forest,
and wild animals will eat them.
^15 (13) I will punish her for offering incense
on the feast days of the ba‘alim,
when she decked herself with her earrings and jewels,
pursuing her lovers and forgetting me,” says Adonai.