Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹² Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem;
    praise your God, O Zion.

¹³ For He has strengthened the bars of your gates;
    He has blessed your children within you.
¹⁴ He makes peace in your borders,
    and fills you with the finest of the wheat.

¹⁵ He sends forth His commandment on the earth;
    His word goes out swiftly.
¹⁶ He gives snow like wool;
    He scatters the frost like ashes;
¹⁷ He casts forth His ice like morsels;
    who can stand before His cold?
¹⁸ He sends out His word and melts them;
    He causes His wind to blow and the waters flow.

¹⁹ He shows His word to Jacob,
    and His statutes and His judgments to Israel.
²⁰ He has not dealt so with any other nation;
    they have not known His judgments.

Praise the Lord!

² To know wisdom and instruction,
    to perceive the words of understanding,
³ to receive the instruction of wisdom,
    justice, judgment, and equity;
⁴ to give subtlety to the simple,
    to the young man knowledge and discretion—
⁵ a wise man will hear and will increase learning,
    and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,
⁶ to understand a proverb and the interpretation,
    the words of the wise and their riddles.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
    but fools despise wisdom and instruction.