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.

²² “Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? Or have you seen the treasures of the hail

²³ “which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

²⁴ “By what way is the light parted which scatters the East wind upon the Earth?

²⁵ “Who has divided the spouts for the rain, or the way for the lightning of the thunders,

²⁶ “to cause it to rain on the Earth where no man is, and in the wilderness where there is no man,

²⁷ “to satisfy the wild and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herb to spring forth?

²⁸ “Who is the father of the rain? Or who has begotten the drops of the dew?

²⁹ “Out of whose womb came the ice? Who has borne the frost of the heaven?

³⁰ “The waters are hidden as a stone, and the face of the depth is frozen.

³¹ “Can you restrain the sweet influences of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

³² “Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in their time? Can you also guide Arcturus with his sons?

³³ “Do you know the course of heaven, or can you set its rule on the Earth?

³⁴ “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that the abundance of water may cover you?

³⁵ “Can you send the lightning so that it may walk, and say to you, ‘Lo, here we are’?

³⁶ “Who has put wisdom in the core? Or who has given the heart understanding?

³⁷ “Who can number clouds by wisdom? Or who can cause the bottles of heaven to cease

³⁸ “when the Earth grows into hardness, and the clots hold together?”

¹⁵ “If you love Me, keep My Commandments.

¹⁶ “And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may be with you forever;

¹⁷ the Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him. For He dwells with you and shall be in you.