Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

8 Does not wisdom cry out,
and understanding lift her voice?
² On the topmost heights along the way,
at the crossroads, she takes her stand.
³ Beside the gates leading into the city,
at the entrances, she cries aloud:
⁴ “To you, O men, I call out!
My cry is to all mankind!

²² “Adonai brought me forth,
the first of His way,
before His works of old.
²³ From eternity I was appointed
from the beginning, before the world began.
²⁴ When there were no depths, I was brought forth,
when there were no fountains abounding with water.
²⁵ Before the mountains were shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth.
²⁶ He had not yet made the land,
the fields, or the first dust of the earth.
²⁷ When He set the heavens in place, I was there.
When He inscribed the horizon on the face of the ocean,
²⁸ when He established the skies above,
when He securely fixed the fountains of the deep,
²⁹ when He set the boundaries for the sea,
so that the waters never transgress His command,
when He laid out earth’s foundations—
³⁰ then I was the craftsman beside Him,
I was His daily delight, always rejoicing before Him,
³¹ rejoicing in His whole world,
    and delighting in mankind.

¹ For the music director, upon the Gittite lyre: a psalm of David.
² Adonai our Lord,
    how excellent is Your Name over all the earth!
You set Your splendor above the heavens.
³ Out of the mouths of babies and toddlers
You established power,^[a] because of Your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
⁴ When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which You established—
⁵ what is man, that You are mindful of him?
And the son of man, that You care for him?^[b]
6 Yet You made him a little lower than the angels,
and crowned him with glory and majesty!
⁷ You gave him dominion over the works of Your hands.
You put all things under their feet:^[c]
8 all sheep and oxen,
and also beasts of the field,
⁹ birds in the air, and fish in the ocean—
all passing through the paths of the seas.