Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

³ When I observe your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you set in place,^(E)
4 what is a human being that you remember him,
a son of man^[c] that you look after him?^(F)
5 You made him little less than God^[d][e]
and crowned him with glory and honor.
⁶ You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet:^(G)
7 all the sheep and oxen,
as well as the animals in the wild,
⁸ the birds of the sky,
and the fish of the sea
that pass through the currents of the seas.^(H)

⁹ Lord, our Lord,
how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!

¹² Have you ever in your life commanded the morning
or assigned the dawn its place,
¹³ so it may seize the edges of the earth
and shake the wicked out of it?
¹⁴ The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;
its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
¹⁵ Light^[a] is withheld from the wicked,
and the arm raised in violence is broken.

¹⁶ Have you traveled to the sources of the sea
or walked in the depths of the oceans?
¹⁷ Have the gates^(A) of death been revealed to you?
Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
¹⁸ Have you comprehended the extent of the earth?
Tell me, if you know all this.

¹⁹ Where is the road to the home of light?
Do you know where darkness lives,
²⁰ so you can lead it back to its border?
Are you familiar with the paths to its home?
²¹ Don’t you know? You were already born;^(B)
you have lived so long!^[b]