Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my ^[a]wandering, the ^(A)wormwood and bitterness.
²⁰ Surely ^(B)my soul remembers
And is ^(C)bowed down within me.
²¹ This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have ^(D)hope.
²² The Lord’s ^(E)lovingkindnesses ^[b]indeed never cease,
^(F)For His compassions never fail.
²³ They are new ^(G)every morning;
Great is ^(H)Your faithfulness.
²⁴ “The Lord is my ^(I)portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I ^(J)have hope in Him.”
²⁵ The Lord is good to those who ^(K)wait for Him,
To the ^[c]person who ^(L)seeks Him.
²⁶ It is good that he ^(M)waits silently
For the salvation of the Lord.

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)mocked at her ^[a]ruin.
⁸ Jerusalem sinned ^(D)greatly,
Therefore ^(E)she has become an unclean thing.
All who honored her despise her
Because they have seen her nakedness;
Even ^(F)she herself groans and turns away.
⁹ Her ^(G)uncleanness was in her skirts;
She ^[b]did not consider her ^(H)future.
Therefore she has ^[c](I)fallen astonishingly;
^(J)She has no comforter.
“^(K)See, O Lord, my affliction,
For the enemy has ^(L)magnified himself!”
¹⁰ The adversary has stretched out his hand
Over all her precious things,
For she has seen the ^(M)nations enter her sanctuary,
The ones whom You commanded
That they should ^(N)not enter into Your congregation.
¹¹ All her people groan ^(O)seeking bread;
They have given their precious things for food
To ^(P)restore their ^[d]lives themselves.
“See, O Lord, 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 ^[e]pain like my ^[f]pain
Which was severely dealt out to me,
Which the ^(S)Lord inflicted on the day of His ^(T)fierce anger.
¹³ “From on high He sent fire into my ^(U)bones,
And it ^[g]prevailed over them.
He has spread a ^(V)net for my feet;
He has turned me back;
He has made me ^(W)desolate,
^[h]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 ^[i]fail.
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 strong men
In my midst;
He has called an appointed ^[j]time against me
To crush my ^(AB)young men;
The Lord has ^(AC)trodden as in a wine press
The virgin daughter of Judah.