Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

You have set Your glory
    above the heavens.
² Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
    You have ordained strength
because of Your enemies,
    to silence the enemy and the avenger.
³ When I consider Your heavens,
    the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
    which You have established,
⁴ what is man that You are mindful of him,
    and the son of man that You attend to him?

⁵ For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
    and crowned him with glory and honor.
⁶ You have given him dominion over the works of Your hands;
    You have put all things under his feet,
⁷ all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸ the birds of the air,
    and the fish of the sea,
    and whatever travels the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Lord,
    how excellent is Your name in all the earth!

² “Who is this who darkens counsel
    by words without knowledge?
³ Prepare yourself like a man;
    for I will question you,
    and you shall answer Me.

⁴ “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
    Declare, if you have understanding.
⁵ Who has determined its measurements, if you know?
    Or who has stretched the line upon it?
⁶ To what are its foundations fastened?
    Or who laid its cornerstone
⁷ when the morning stars sang together,
    and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

⁸ “Or who shut up the sea with doors
    when it broke forth and went out of the womb?
⁹ When I made the cloud its garment,
    and thick darkness its swaddling band,
¹⁰ and broke up for it My decreed place,
    and set bars and doors,
¹¹ and said, ‘This far you will come but no farther,
    and here your proud waves will be stopped’?