Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁷ “Listen, my people, and I will speak;
    I will testify^(A) against you, Israel:
    I am God, your God.^(B)
8 I bring no charges^(C) against you concerning your sacrifices
    or concerning your burnt offerings,^(D) which are ever before me.
⁹ I have no need of a bull^(E) from your stall
    or of goats^(F) from your pens,^(G)
10 for every animal of the forest^(H) is mine,
    and the cattle on a thousand hills.^(I)
11 I know every bird^(J) in the mountains,
    and the insects in the fields^(K) are mine.
¹² If I were hungry I would not tell you,
    for the world^(L) is mine, and all that is in it.^(M)
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
    or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴ “Sacrifice thank offerings^(N) to God,
    fulfill your vows^(O) to the Most High,^(P)
15 and call^(Q) on me in the day of trouble;^(R)
    I will deliver^(S) you, and you will honor^(T) me.”

⁴⁰ Let us examine our ways and test them,^(A)
    and let us return to the Lord.^(B)
41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands
    to God in heaven,^(C) and say:
⁴² “We have sinned and rebelled^(D)
    and you have not forgiven.^(E)

⁴³ “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued^(F) us;
    you have slain without pity.^(G)
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud^(H)
    so that no prayer^(I) can get through.^(J)
45 You have made us scum^(K) and refuse
    among the nations.

⁴⁶ “All our enemies have opened their mouths
    wide^(L) against us.^(M)
47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls,^(N)
    ruin and destruction.^(O)”
⁴⁸ Streams of tears^(P) flow from my eyes^(Q)
    because my people are destroyed.^(R)

⁴⁹ My eyes will flow unceasingly,
    without relief,^(S)
50 until the Lord looks down
    from heaven and sees.^(T)
51 What I see brings grief to my soul
    because of all the women of my city.

⁵² Those who were my enemies without cause
    hunted me like a bird.^(U)
53 They tried to end my life in a pit^(V)
    and threw stones at me;
⁵⁴ the waters closed over my head,^(W)
    and I thought I was about to perish.^(X)

⁵⁵ I called on your name, Lord,
    from the depths^(Y) of the pit.^(Z)
56 You heard my plea:^(AA) “Do not close your ears
    to my cry for relief.”
⁵⁷ You came near^(AB) when I called you,
    and you said, “Do not fear.”^(AC)

⁵⁸ You, Lord, took up my case;^(AD)
    you redeemed my life.^(AE)