Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

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.

¹² “Have you ever commanded the morning in all your life? Have you caused the morning to know its place,

¹³ “so that it might take hold of the corners of the Earth, and so that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

¹⁴ “It is turned, as clay under a seal. And all stand up as a garment.

¹⁵ “And their light shall be withheld from the wicked, and the raised arm shall be broken.

¹⁶ “Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked to seek out the depths?

¹⁷ “Have the gates of death been opened to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

¹⁸ “Have you perceived the breadth of the Earth? Tell if you know all this.

¹⁹ “Where is the way where light dwells? And where is the place of darkness,

²⁰ “so that you should receive it in its bounds, and so that you should know the paths to its house?

²¹ “Did you know it because you were alive then, and the number of your days is great?

¹² For this reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed. For I know Whom I have believed. And I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him until that Day.

¹³ Keep the true pattern of the wholesome words which you have heard from me in faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ Keep that worthy thing which was committed to you through the Holy Ghost, Who dwells in us.