Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

29 Give to the LORD, you sons of the Mighty. Give to the LORD glory and strength.

² Give to the LORD glory due His Name. Worship the LORD in the glorious Sanctuary.

³ The voice of the LORD is upon the waters. The God of Glory makes it thunder. The LORD is upon the great waters.

⁴ The voice of the LORD is mighty. The voice of the LORD is glorious.

⁵ The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars. Indeed, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶ He also makes them leap like a calf, Lebanon and Shirion like a young unicorn.

⁷ The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.

⁸ The voice of the LORD makes the wilderness tremble. The LORD makes the wilderness of Kadesh tremble.

⁹ The voice of the LORD makes the hinds calve and discovers the forests. In His Temple, every man speaks of His Glory.

¹⁰ The LORD sits upon the floods; and the LORD remains King forever.

¹¹ The LORD shall give strength to His people. The LORD shall bless His people with peace. A Psalm or song of the dedication of the House of David.

1 The words of the preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

² “Vanity of vanities,” says the preacher, “Vanity of vanities. All is vanity.

³ “What remains to man in all his travail which he suffers under the Sun?”

⁴ One generation passes, and another generation succeeds. But the Earth remains forever.

⁵ The Sun rises, and the Sun goes down, and hastens to its place where it arose.

⁶ The wind goes toward the south, and circles around toward the north. The wind whirls about continually and returns by its circuits.

⁷ All the rivers go into the sea. Yet the sea is not full. For the rivers go to the place from where they have returned.

⁸ All things are full of labor. Man cannot utter it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

⁹ What has been is what will be. And what has been done is what shall be done. And there is no new thing under the Sun.

¹⁰ Is there anything of which one may say, “Behold this, it is new?” It has already been in the previous time before us.

¹¹ There is no memory of former things, nor shall there be a remembrance of things to come by those who shall come after.

¹⁸ For the preaching of the cross is to those who perish, foolishness. But to us who are saved, it is the power of God.

¹⁹ For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will cast away the understanding of the prudent.”

²⁰ Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this world? Has not God made the wisdom of this world foolishness?

²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world in its own wisdom did not know God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to save those who believe;

²² seeing also that the Jews require a sign, and the Grecians seek after wisdom.

²³ But we preach Christ crucified, indeed a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Grecians.

²⁴ But to those who are called, both of the Jews and Grecians, we preach Christ: the power of God and the wisdom of God.

²⁵ For the foolishness of God is wiser than man, and the weakness of God is stronger than man.

²⁶ For brothers, you see your calling: how that not many are wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.

²⁷ But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. And God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty things.

²⁸ And vile things of the world, and things which are despised, God has chosen, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are.

²⁹ That no flesh should boast in His presence.

³⁰ But you are of Him in Christ Jesus, Who, out of God, is made wisdom and righteousness to us, and sanctification, and redemption.

³¹ That it may be as it is written, ‘The one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord’.