Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

29 Ascribe to the Lord, you heavenly beings;
    ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
² Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
    worship the Lord wearing holy attire.

³⁹ “Can you hunt prey for the lioness
    to satisfy young lions
⁴⁰ when they crouch in their dens
    and lie in ambush in their lairs?
⁴¹ Who prepares food for the raven,
    when its offspring cry out to God
        as they wander for lack of food?”

39 “Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth?
    Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?
² Can you count the months of their gestation?
    Do you know the time when they give birth,
³ when they crouch down^[a] to give birth^[b] to their offspring,
    and let go^[c] of their birth pangs?
⁴ Their young are strong;
    they grow up in the open field;
then they go off
    and don’t return to them.”

⁵ “Who sets the wild donkey free?
    Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey
⁶ to whom I’ve given the Arabah^[d] for a home;
    the salt plain for his dwelling place?
⁷ He despises city noises;^[e]
    he ignores the shouts^[f] of the driver.
⁸ He ranges the mountains that are his pasture
    to search for anything green.
⁹ Is the wild ox willing to serve you?
    Will he sleep at night near your feeding trough?
¹⁰ Can you bind the ox to plow a furrow with a rope?
    Will he harrow after you in the valley?
¹¹ Will you trust him because of his great strength
    and entrust your labor to him?
¹² Will you trust him that he’ll bring in your grain,
    and gather it to your threshing floor?”