Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

God’s Shining-Greatness

8 O Lord, our Lord, how great is Your name in all the earth. You have set Your shining-greatness above the heavens. ² Out of the mouth of children and babies, You have built up strength because of those who hate You, and to quiet those who fight against You.

³ When I look up and think about Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in their place, ⁴ what is man, that You think of him, the son of man that You care for him? ⁵ You made him a little less than the angels and gave him a crown of greatness and honor. ⁶ You made him to rule over the works of Your hands. You put all things under his feet: ⁷ All sheep and cattle, all the wild animals, ⁸ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and all that pass through the sea. ⁹ O Lord, our Lord, how great is Your name in all the earth!

¹² “Have you ever in your life told the morning when to come, and caused the first light of day to know its place, ¹³ that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the sinful be shaken out of it? ¹⁴ It is changed like clay when an object is pushed down to mark it, and they stand out like clothing. ¹⁵ The light of the sinful is held back, and the arm lifted up is broken.

¹⁶ “Have you gone into the wells of the sea? Have you walked on the bottom of the deep sea? ¹⁷ Have the gates of death been shown to you? Or have you seen the gates of the deep darkness? ¹⁸ Have you understood how great the earth is? Tell Me, if you know all this.

¹⁹ “Where does the light come from? And where is the place of darkness, ²⁰ that you may take it to its land, and know the paths to its home? ²¹ You know, for you were born then. You are very old!

¹² For this reason, I am suffering. But I am not ashamed. I know the One in Whom I have put my trust. I am sure He is able to keep safe that which I have trusted to Him until the day He comes again. ¹³ Keep all the things I taught you. They were given to you in the faith and love of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ Keep safe that which He has trusted you with by the Holy Spirit Who lives in us.