Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

³ I look at your heavens,
    which you made with your fingers.
I see the moon and stars,
    which you created.
⁴ But why are people even important to you?
    Why do you take care of human beings?
⁵ You made them a little lower than the angels
    and crowned them with glory and honor.
⁶ You put them in charge of everything you made.
    You put all things under their control:
⁷ all the sheep, the cattle,
    and the wild animals,
⁸ the birds in the sky,
    the fish in the sea,
    and everything that lives under water.

⁹ Lord our Lord,
    your name is the most wonderful name in all the earth!

¹² “Have you ever ordered the morning to begin,
    or shown the dawn where its place was
¹³ in order to take hold of the earth by its edges
    and shake evil people out of it?
¹⁴ At dawn the earth changes like clay being pressed by a seal;
    the hills and valleys stand out like folds in a coat.
¹⁵ Light is not given to evil people;
    their arm is raised to do harm, but it is broken.

¹⁶ “Have you ever gone to where the sea begins
    or walked in the valleys under the sea?
¹⁷ Have the gates of death been opened to you?
    Have you seen the gates of the deep darkness?
¹⁸ Do you understand how wide the earth is?
    Tell me, if you know all these things.

¹⁹ “What is the path to light’s home,
    and where does darkness live?
²⁰ Can you take them to their places?
    Do you know the way to their homes?
²¹ Surely you know, if you were already born when all this happened!
    Have you lived that many years?