Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹ O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Set this glory of yours above the heavens.^[b]
2 From the lips of little children and nursing babies
    you have established strength^[c] because of your foes,
        to put a stop to the enemy and the avenger.

³ Whenever I look up at your heavens, the works of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place—
⁴ what is man that you remember him,
the son of man^[d] that you pay attention to him!
⁵ Nevertheless, you make him suffer need,
    apart from God for a while,^[e]
but you crown him with glory and honor.
⁶ You make him the ruler over the works of your hands.
You put everything under his feet:
⁷ all flocks and cattle, and even the wild animals,
⁸ the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea,
    which pass through the currents of the seas.
⁹ O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

¹³ How blessed is the person who finds wisdom,^[a]
the person who acquires understanding,
¹⁴ because the profit it gives is better than the profit from silver,
and its yield is better than gold!
¹⁵ It is more valuable than gems,^[b]
and nothing you desire can equal it.
¹⁶ In its right hand are the days of a long life.
In its left hand are riches and honor.
¹⁷ Its ways are pleasant ways,
and all its paths are peace.
¹⁸ It is a tree of life for those who hold on to it.
Those who cling to it are blessed.