Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³ When I look at the sky, which you have made,
    at the moon and the stars, which you set in their places—
^4 (B)what are human beings, that you think of them;
    mere mortals, that you care for them?

^5 (C)Yet you made them inferior only to yourself;^[b]
    you crowned them with glory and honor.
^6 (D)You appointed them rulers over everything you made;
    you placed them over all creation:
⁷     sheep and cattle, and the wild animals too;
⁸     the birds and the fish
    and the creatures in the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Lord,
    your greatness is seen in all the world!

²² Have you ever visited the storerooms,
    where I keep the snow and the hail?
²³ I keep them ready for times of trouble,
    for days of battle and war.
²⁴ Have you been to the place where the sun comes up,
    or the place from which the east wind blows?

²⁵ Who dug a channel for the pouring rain
    and cleared the way for the thunderstorm?
²⁶ Who makes rain fall where no one lives?
²⁷ Who waters the dry and thirsty land,
    so that grass springs up?
²⁸ Does either the rain or the dew have a father?
²⁹ Who is the mother of the ice and the frost,
³⁰     which turn the waters to stone
    and freeze the face of the sea?

^31 (A)Can you tie the Pleiades together
    or loosen the bonds that hold Orion?
³² Can you guide the stars season by season
    and direct the Big and the Little Dipper?
³³ Do you know the laws that govern the skies,
    and can you make them apply to the earth?

³⁴ Can you shout orders to the clouds
    and make them drench you with rain?
³⁵ And if you command the lightning to flash,
    will it come to you and say, “At your service”?
³⁶ Who tells the ibis^[a] when the Nile will flood,
    or who tells the rooster that rain will fall?^[b]
37 Who is wise enough to count the clouds
    and tilt them over to pour out the rain,
³⁸     rain that hardens the dust into lumps?