Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the Overcomer upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ O LORD our Lord, how great is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy praise above the heavens.

² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou might still the enemy and the avenger.

³ ¶ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

⁴ what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou dost visit him?

⁵ For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and beauty.

⁶ Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

⁷ all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

⁸ The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O LORD our Lord, how great is thy name in all the earth!

²² Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow, and hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

²³ which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

²⁴ By what way is the light divided; from where is the east wind scattered upon the earth?

²⁵ ¶ Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters or a way for the lightning of thunder,

²⁶ to cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

²⁷ to satisfy the desolate and waste ground and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

²⁸ Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of the dew?

²⁹ Out of whose womb came the ice, and the hoary frost of heaven, who has begotten it?

³⁰ The waters harden as stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

³¹ Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

³² Canst thou bring forth the signs of the heavens in their season, or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

³³ Dost thou know the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou use its power in the earth?

³⁴ Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

³⁵ Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?

³⁶ Who put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who gave intelligence to understanding?

³⁷ Who declared the heavens in wisdom? Or who can stay the bottles of heaven

³⁸ when the dust hardens and the clods cleave fast together?

¹⁵ ¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments;

¹⁶ and I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever,

¹⁷ even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see him, or know him; but ye know him, for he dwells with you and shall be in you.