Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

³ When my spirit ^(E)faints within me,
    you know my way!
In the path where I walk
    they have ^(F)hidden a trap for me.
^4 (G)Look to the ^(H)right and see:
    ^(I)there is none who takes notice of me;
^(J)no refuge remains to me;
    no one cares for my soul.

⁵ I cry to you, O Lord;
    I say, “You are my ^(K)refuge,
    my ^(L)portion in ^(M)the land of the living.”
^6 (N)Attend to my cry,
    for ^(O)I am brought very low!
Deliver me from my persecutors,
    ^(P)for they are too strong for me!
^7 (Q)Bring me out of prison,
    that I may give thanks to your name!
The righteous will surround me,
    for you will ^(R)deal bountifully with me.

^12 (A)“Woe to him ^(B)who builds a town with blood
    and founds a city on iniquity!
¹³ Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts
    that ^(C)peoples labor merely for fire,
    and nations weary themselves for nothing?
^14 (D)For the earth will be filled
    with the knowledge of ^(E)the glory of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

^15 (F)“Woe to him ^(G)who makes his neighbors drink—
    you pour out your wrath and make them drunk,
    in order to gaze ^(H)at their nakedness!
¹⁶ You will have your fill ^(I)of shame instead of glory.
    ^(J)Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision!
^(K)The cup in the Lord's right hand
    will come around to you,
    and ^(L)utter shame will come upon your glory!
^17 (M)The violence ^(N)done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,
    as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them,
^(O)for the blood of man and violence to the earth,
    to cities and all who dwell in them.

^18 (P)“What profit is an idol
    when its maker has shaped it,
    a metal image, ^(Q)a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
    when he makes ^(R)speechless idols!
^19 (S)Woe to him ^(T)who says to a wooden thing, Awake;
    to a silent stone, Arise!
Can this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
    and ^(U)there is no breath at all in it.
²⁰ But ^(V)the Lord is in his holy temple;
    ^(W)let all the earth keep silence before him.”