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!

²² Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, and hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,

²³ Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of battle and war?

²⁴ By what way is the light parted, [and] the east wind scattered upon the earth?

²⁵ Who hath divided a channel for the rain-flood, and a way for the thunder's flash;

²⁶ To cause it to rain on the earth, where no one is; on the wilderness wherein there is not a man;

²⁷ To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground], and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?

²⁸ Hath the rain a father? or who begetteth the drops of dew?

²⁹ Out of whose womb cometh the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who bringeth it forth?

³⁰ When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.

³¹ Canst thou fasten the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

³² Dost thou bring forth the constellations each in its season? or dost thou guide the Bear with her sons?

³³ Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? dost thou determine their rule over the earth?

³⁴ Dost thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that floods of waters may cover thee?

³⁵ Dost thou send forth lightnings that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

³⁶ Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the mind?

³⁷ Who numbereth the clouds with wisdom? or who poureth out the bottles of the heavens,

³⁸ When the dust runneth as into a molten mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

¹⁵ If ye love me, keep my commandments.

¹⁶ And I will beg the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,

¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see him nor know him; but ye know him, for he abides with you, and shall be in you.