Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

8 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth,
who put your splendor above the heavens.
² From the mouth of children and infants you have founded^[c] strength
on account of your enemies,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
³ When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars which you set in place—
⁴ what is a human being that you think of him?
and a child of humankind that you care for him?
⁵ And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings,^[d]
and with glory and with majesty you crowned him.
⁶ You make him over the works of your hands;
all things you have placed under his feet:
⁷ sheep and cattle, all of them,
and also the wild animals of the field,
⁸ the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea,
everything that passes along the paths of seas.
⁹ Yahweh, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all of the earth!

¹² “Have you ever in your life^[a] commanded the morning?
Have you made the dawn know its place,
¹³ to take hold of the earth’s skirts
so that^[b] the wicked might be shaken off from it?
¹⁴ It is changed like clay under a seal,
and they appear like a garment.
¹⁵ And their light is withheld from the wicked,
and their uplifted arm is broken.
¹⁶ “Have you entered into the sea’s sources?
Or have you walked around in the recesses of the deep?
¹⁷ Have the gates of death been revealed to you?
Or have you seen the gates of deep shadow?
¹⁸ Have you considered closely the earth’s vast expanse?
Declare it, if you know all of it.
¹⁹ “Where then^[c] is the way where the light dwells?
And where then^[d] is its place,
²⁰ that you may take it to its territory,
and that you might discern the paths to its home?
²¹ You know, for you were born then,
and the number of your days is great.