Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

8 Unto the end, for the presses: a psalm of David.

² O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.

³ Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise, because of thy enemies, that thou mayst destroy the enemy and the avenger.

⁴ For I will behold thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast founded.

⁵ What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?

⁶ Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:

⁷ And hast set him over the works of thy hands.

⁸ Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover the beasts also of the fields.

⁹ The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, that pass through the paths of the sea.

¹⁰ O Lord our Lord, how admirable is thy name in all the earth!

²² Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or has thou beheld the treasures of the hail:

²³ Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?

²⁴ By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?

²⁵ Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:

²⁶ That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth:

²⁷ That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?

²⁸ Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?

²⁹ Out of whose womb came the ice; and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?

³⁰ The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.

³¹ Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?

³² Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?

³³ Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?

³⁴ Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?

³⁵ Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?

³⁶ Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?

³⁷ Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?

³⁸ When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?

¹⁵ If you love me, keep my commandments.

¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever.

¹⁷ The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him: but you shall know him; because he shall abide with you, and shall be in you.