Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

You have covered the heavens with Your majesty.^[a](C)
2 Because of Your adversaries,
You have established a stronghold^[b]
from the mouths of children and nursing infants^(D)
to silence the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I observe Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which You set in place,^(E)
4 what is man that You remember him,
the son of man that You look after him?^(F)
5 You made him little less than God^[c][d]
and crowned him with glory and honor.
⁶ You made him lord over the works of Your hands;
You put everything under his feet:^[e](G)
7 all the sheep and oxen,
as well as the animals in the wild,
⁸ the birds of the sky,
and the fish of the sea
that pass through the currents of the seas.^(H)

⁹ Yahweh, our Lord,
how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!

² Who is this who obscures My counsel
with ignorant words?^(B)
3 Get ready to answer Me like a man;
when I question^(C) you, you will inform Me.
⁴ Where were you when I established^(D) the earth?
Tell Me, if you have^[a] understanding.
⁵ Who fixed its dimensions? Certainly you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
⁶ What supports its foundations?
Or who laid its cornerstone
⁷ while the morning stars sang together
and all the sons of God^(E) shouted for joy?

⁸ Who enclosed the sea behind doors
when it burst from the womb,
⁹ when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its blanket,^[b](F)
10 when I determined its boundaries^[c]
and put its bars and doors in place,
¹¹ when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;
your proud waves stop here”?

⁹ He has saved us and called us
with a holy calling,^(E)
not according to our works,^(F)
but according to His own purpose^(G) and grace,
which was given to us in Christ Jesus
before time began.
¹⁰ This has now been made evident
through the appearing^(H) of our Savior Christ Jesus,
who has abolished death^(I)
and has brought life^(J) and immortality to light
through the gospel.