Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

8 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding give forth her voice?

² On the top of high places by the way, at the cross-paths she taketh her stand.

³ Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud.

⁴ Unto you, men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man:

²² Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

²³ I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.

²⁴ When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.

²⁵ Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;

²⁶ while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

²⁷ When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he ordained the circle upon the face of the deep;

²⁸ when he established the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong;

²⁹ when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

³⁰ then I was by him [his] nursling, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

³¹ rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights [were] with the sons of men.

To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

8 Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.

² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;

⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

⁵ Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.

⁶ Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:

⁷ Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;

⁸ The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, [whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.

⁹ Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

5 Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

² by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.

³ And not only [that], but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

⁴ and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

⁵ and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by [the] Holy Spirit which has been given to us:

¹² I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.

¹³ But when *he* is come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but whatsoever he shall hear he shall speak; and he will announce to you what is coming.

¹⁴ He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine and shall announce [it] to you.

¹⁵ All things that the Father has are mine; on account of this I have said that he receives of mine and shall announce [it] to you.