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!

¹² Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,

¹³ That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked might be shaken out of it?

¹⁴ It is changed like the signet-clay; and [all things] stand forth as in a garment:

¹⁵ And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the uplifted arm is broken.

¹⁶ Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? and hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

¹⁸ Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.

¹⁹ Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place,

²⁰ That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house?

²¹ Thou knowest, for thou wast then born, and the number of thy days is great!

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.

¹³ Have an outline of sound words, which [words] thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which [are] in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ Keep, by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us, the good deposit entrusted.