Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³ Yahweh’s voice is on the waters.
    The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.
⁴ Yahweh’s voice is powerful.
    Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty.
⁵ Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars.
    Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶ He makes them also to skip like a calf;
    Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.
⁷ Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
⁸     Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness.
    Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
⁹ Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve,
    and strips the forests bare.
    In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

¹⁰ Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood.
    Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.
¹¹ Yahweh will give strength to his people.
    Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

¹³ “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
    but are they the feathers and plumage of love?
¹⁴ For she leaves her eggs on the earth,
    warms them in the dust,
¹⁵ and forgets that the foot may crush them,
    or that the wild animal may trample them.
¹⁶ She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers.
    Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
¹⁷ because God has deprived her of wisdom,
    neither has he imparted to her understanding.
¹⁸ When she lifts up herself on high,
    she scorns the horse and his rider.

¹⁹ “Have you given the horse might?
    Have you clothed his neck with a quivering mane?
²⁰ Have you made him to leap as a locust?
    The glory of his snorting is awesome.
²¹ He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength.
    He goes out to meet the armed men.
²² He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed,
    neither does he turn back from the sword.
²³ The quiver rattles against him,
    the flashing spear and the javelin.
²⁴ He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage,
    neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
²⁵ As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, ‘Aha!’
    He smells the battle afar off,
    the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.