Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³ The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
    the God of glory thunders,
    the Lord, over mighty waters.^(C)
4 The voice of the Lord is powerful;
    the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.^(D)

⁵ The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars;
    the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.^(E)
6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf
    and Sirion like a young wild ox.^(F)

⁷ The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.
⁸ The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
    the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.^(G)

⁹ The voice of the Lord causes the oaks to whirl^[b]
    and strips the forest bare,
    and in his temple all say, “Glory!”^(H)

¹⁰ The Lord sits enthroned over the flood;
    the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.^(I)
11 May the Lord give strength to his people!
    May the Lord bless his people with peace!^(J)

³⁹ “Can you hunt the prey for the lion
    or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,^(A)
40 when they crouch in their dens
    or lie in wait in their covert?^(B)
41 Who provides for the raven its prey,
    when its young ones cry to God
    and wander about for lack of food?^(C)

39 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
    Do you observe the calving of the deer?^(D)
2 Can you number the months that they fulfill,
    and do you know the time when they give birth,
³ when they crouch to give birth to their offspring
    and are delivered of their young?^(E)
4 Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;
    they go forth and do not return to them.

⁵ “Who has let the wild ass go free?
    Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,^(F)
6 to which I have given the steppe for its home,
    the salt land for its dwelling place?^(G)
7 It scorns the tumult of the city;
    it does not hear the shouts of the driver.
⁸ It ranges the mountains as its pasture,
    and it searches after every green thing.

⁹ “Is the wild ox willing to serve you?
    Will it spend the night at your crib?^(H)
10 Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes,
    or will it harrow the valleys after you?
¹¹ Will you depend on it because its strength is great,
    and will you hand over your labor to it?
¹² Do you have faith in it that it will return
    and bring your grain to your threshing floor?^[a]