Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my ^[a]homelessness, the ^(A)wormwood and gall.
²⁰ Surely ^(B)my soul remembers
And is ^(C)bowed down within me.
²¹ This I will return to my heart;
Therefore I will ^(D)wait in hope.

²² The ^(E)lovingkindnesses of Yahweh ^[b]indeed never cease,
^(F)For His compassions never fail.
²³ They are new ^(G)every morning;
Great is ^(H)Your faithfulness.
²⁴ “Yahweh is my ^(I)portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I ^(J)wait for Him.”

²⁵ Yahweh is good to those who ^(K)hope in Him,
To the soul who ^(L)seeks Him.
²⁶ It is good that he ^(M)waits silently
For the salvation of Yahweh.

⁷ In the days of her affliction and homelessness
^(A)Jerusalem remembers all her precious things
That were from the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the adversary
And ^(B)no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her;
They ^(C)laughed at her ^[a]ruin.

⁸ Jerusalem sinned ^(D)greatly;
Therefore ^(E)she has become an impure thing.
All who honored her despise her
Because they have seen her nakedness;
Even ^(F)she herself sighs and turns away.

⁹ Her ^(G)uncleanness was in her skirts;
She did not remember her ^(H)future.
Therefore she has ^(I)gone down astonishingly;
^(J)She has no comforter.
“^(K)See, O Yahweh, my affliction,
For the enemy has ^(L)magnified himself!”

¹⁰ The adversary has stretched out his hand
Over all her desirable things,
For she has seen the ^(M)nations enter her sanctuary,
The ones whom You commanded
That they should ^(N)not enter into Your assembly.

¹¹ All her people are sighing, ^(O)seeking bread;
They have given their desirable things for food
To ^(P)restore their souls.
“See, O Yahweh, and look,
For I am ^(Q)despised.”

¹² “Is ^(R)it nothing to all you who pass this way?
Look and see if there is any ^[b]pain like my ^[c]pain
Which was dealt severely to me,
Which ^(S)Yahweh grieved me with on the day of His ^(T)burning anger.

¹³ From on high He sent fire into my ^(U)bones,
And it dominated them.
He has spread a ^(V)net for my feet;
He has turned me back;
He has made me ^(W)desolate,
^[d]Faint all day long.

¹⁴ The ^(X)yoke of my transgressions is bound;
By His hand they are knit together.
They have ^(Y)come upon my neck;
He has made my strength stumble.
The Lord ^(Z)has given me into the hands
Of those against whom I am not able to stand.

¹⁵ The ^(AA)Lord has rejected all my mighty men
In my midst;
He has called an appointed time against me
To break my ^(AB)young men;
The Lord has ^(AC)trodden as in a wine press
The virgin daughter of Judah.