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!

¹² “Have you commanded the morning in your days,
    and caused the dawn to know its place,
¹³ that it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
    that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
¹⁴ It is turned like clay by the seal,
    and it stands out as a garment.
¹⁵ From the wicked their light is withheld,
    and the high arm will be broken.

¹⁶ “Have you entered into the springs of the sea?
    Or have you walked in search of the depths?
¹⁷ Have the gates of death been opened to you?
    Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
¹⁸ Have you perceived the breadth of the earth?
    Declare, if you know it all.

¹⁹ “Where is the path where light dwells?
    And as for darkness, where is its place,
²⁰ that you should take it to its boundary,
    and that you should know the paths to its house?
²¹ Do you know it because you were born then,
    or because the number of your days is many?