Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
The Lord’s Glory and Mankind’s Dignity.
For the music director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
8 Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
You who have [a](A)displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
2 (B)From the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have established [b](C)strength
Because of Your enemies,
To do away with (D)the enemy and the revengeful.
3 When I [c](E)consider (F)Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The (G)moon and the stars, which You have set in place;
4 (H)What is man that You think of him,
And a son of man that You are concerned about him?
5 Yet You have made him a (I)little lower than [d]God,
And (J)You crown him with (K)glory and majesty!
6 You have him (L)rule over the works of Your hands;
You have (M)put everything under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen,
And also the animals of the field,
8 The birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 (N)Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!
God’s Mighty Power
12 “Have you [a]ever in your life commanded the morning,
And made the dawn know its place,
13 So that it would take hold of (A)the ends of the earth,
And (B)the wicked would be shaken off from it?
14 It is changed like clay under the seal;
And they stand out like a garment.
15 (C)Their light is withheld from the wicked,
And the (D)uplifted arm is broken.
12 For this reason I also suffer these things; but (A)I am not ashamed, for I know (B)whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to (C)protect what I have entrusted to Him [a]until (D)that day. 13 (E)Hold on to the (F)example of (G)sound words (H)which you have heard from me, in the (I)faith and love which are in (J)Christ Jesus. 14 Protect, through the Holy Spirit who (K)dwells in us, the [b](L)treasure which has been entrusted to you.
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