Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

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

⁵ The voice of the Lord breaks ^(D)the cedars,
Yes, the Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon.
^6 (E)He makes them also skip like a calf,
Lebanon and ^(F)Sirion like a young wild ox.
⁷ The voice of the Lord ^[e]divides the flames of fire.

⁸ The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
The Lord shakes the Wilderness of ^(G)Kadesh.
⁹ The voice of the Lord makes the ^(H)deer give birth,
And strips the forests bare;
And in His temple everyone says, “Glory!”

¹⁰ The ^(I)Lord sat enthroned at the Flood,
And ^(J)the Lord sits as King forever.
^11 (K)The Lord will give strength to His people;
The Lord will bless His people with peace.

¹³ “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
But are her wings and pinions like the kindly stork’s?
¹⁴ For she leaves her eggs on the ground,
And warms them in the dust;
¹⁵ She forgets that a foot may crush them,
Or that a wild beast may break them.
¹⁶ She ^(A)treats her young harshly, as though they were not hers;
Her labor is in vain, without ^[a]concern,
¹⁷ Because God deprived her of wisdom,
And did not ^(B)endow her with understanding.
¹⁸ When she lifts herself on high,
She scorns the horse and its rider.

¹⁹ “Have you given the horse strength?
Have you clothed his neck with ^[b]thunder?
²⁰ Can you ^[c]frighten him like a locust?
His majestic snorting strikes terror.
²¹ He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength;
^(C)He gallops into the clash of arms.
²² He mocks at fear, and is not frightened;
Nor does he turn back from the sword.
²³ The quiver rattles against him,
The glittering spear and javelin.
²⁴ He devours the distance with fierceness and rage;
Nor does he come to a halt because the trumpet has sounded.
²⁵ At the blast of the trumpet he says, ‘Aha!’
He smells the battle from afar,
The thunder of captains and shouting.