Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

8 Does not wisdom cry, and understanding utter her voice?

² She stands in the top of the high places; by the way, in the place of the paths.

³ She cries at the gates, before the city, at the entry of the doors,

⁴ “O men, I call to you; and my voice to the children of man.

²² “The LORD has possessed me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old.

²³ “I was set up from everlasting; from the beginning, before the Earth.

²⁴ “I was begotten when there were no depths; when there were no fountains abounding with water;

²⁵ “before the mountains were settled. Before the hills, was I begotten.

²⁶ “He had not yet made the Earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the world.

²⁷ “I was there when He prepared the heavens; when He set the compass upon the deep;

²⁸ “when He established the clouds above; when He confirmed the fountains of the deep;

²⁹ “when He gave His Decree to the sea that the waters should not pass His Commandment; when He appointed the foundations of the Earth.

³⁰ “Then I was with Him, a nourisher. And I was His daily delight, rejoicing always before Him;

³¹ “and took my solace in the compass of His Earth, and my delight with the children of man.

8 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your Name in all the world; Who has set Your Glory above the heavens!

² Out of the mouth of children and infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies; that You might cease the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I behold Your heavens, the works of Your fingers; the moon and the stars which You have ordained,

⁴ what is man that You are mindful of him; and the son of man that You seek him?

⁵ For You have made him a little lower than God and crowned him with glory and worship.

⁶ You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands. You have put all things under his feet,

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

⁸ the birds of the air and the fish of the sea; that which passes through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your Name in all the world! To him who excels upon Muth Labben: A Psalm of David.

5 Then, being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ,

² by Whom, through faith, we also have access into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in the hope of the Glory of God.

³ Not only that, but we also rejoice in tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings forth patience

⁴ and patience, experience; and experience, hope.

⁵ And hope does not humiliate. Because the Holy Ghost, Who is given to us, drenches our hearts with the love of God.

¹² “I still have many things to say to you. But you cannot bear them now.

¹³ “However, when He Who is the Spirit of Truth comes, He will lead you into all Truth. For He shall not speak from Himself. But whatever He shall hear, He shall speak. And He will show you the things to come.

¹⁴ “He shall glorify Me. For He shall receive that which is Mine and shall show it to you.

¹⁵ “All things that the Father has, are Mine. Therefore, I said that He shall take that which is Mine, and show it to you.