Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

8 Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.

² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;

⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

⁵ Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.

⁶ Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:

⁷ Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;

⁸ The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, [whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.

⁹ Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

38 And Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

² Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

³ Gird up now thy loins like a man; and I will demand of thee, and inform thou me.

⁴ Where wast thou when I founded the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.

⁵ Who set the measures thereof—if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?

⁶ Whereupon were the foundations thereof sunken? or who laid its corner-stone,

⁷ When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

⁸ And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?

⁹ When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;

¹⁰ When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,

¹¹ And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

⁸ Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidings, according to the power of God;

⁹ who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to [his] own purpose and grace, which [was] given to us in Christ Jesus before [the] ages of time,

¹⁰ but has been made manifest now by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has annulled death, and brought to light life and incorruptibility by the glad tidings;

¹¹ to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle and teacher of [the] nations.

¹² For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.