Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

29 Ascribe to Yahweh, O sons of God,^[b]
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
² Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due^[c] his name.
Worship Yahweh in holy array.
³ The voice of Yahweh is over the waters;
the God of glory thunders.
Yahweh is over many waters.
⁴ The voice of Yahweh is powerful.
The voice of Yahweh is majestic.
⁵ The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars.
Yahweh shatters even the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶ And he makes them skip like a calf;
Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
⁷ The voice of Yahweh flashes^[d] flames of fire.
⁸ The voice of Yahweh shakes the wilderness.
Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
⁹ The voice of Yahweh causes deer^[e] to give birth
and strips the forests bare.
And at his temple all in it say, “Glory!”
¹⁰ Yahweh sits enthroned at the flood,
and Yahweh sits as king forever.
¹¹ May Yahweh give strength to his people.
May Yahweh bless his people with peace.

²⁶ “Does the hawk soar by your wisdom?
Does it spread its wings to the south?
²⁷ Or does the eagle fly high at your command
and construct its nest high?
²⁸ It lives on the rock and spends the night
on the rock point and the mountain stronghold.^[a]
29 From there it spies out the prey;
its eyes look from far away.
³⁰ And its young ones lick blood greedily,
and where the dead carcasses are, there they are.”

³ So Job answered Yahweh and said,
⁴ “Look, I am insignificant.
What shall I answer you?
I lay my hand on my mouth.
⁵ Once I have spoken, and I will not answer;
even^[c] twice, but^[d] I will not proceed.”