Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

You have set your glory above the heavens.^(A)
2     Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
    to silence the enemy and the avenger.^(B)

³ When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
    the moon and the stars that you have established;^(C)
4 what are humans that you are mindful of them,
    mortals^[a] that you care for them?^(D)

⁵ Yet you have made them a little lower than God^[b]
    and crowned them with glory and honor.^(E)
6 You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
    you have put all things under their feet,^(F)
7 all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Sovereign,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!^(G)

¹² “Have you commanded the morning since your days began
    and caused the dawn to know its place,^(A)
13 so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,
    and the wicked be shaken out of it?^(B)
14 It is changed like clay under the seal,
    and it is dyed^[a] like a garment.
¹⁵ Light is withheld from the wicked,
    and their uplifted arm is broken.^(C)

¹⁶ “Have you entered into the springs of the sea
    or walked in the recesses of the deep?^(D)
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
    or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?^(E)
18 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
    Declare, if you know all this.^(F)

¹⁹ “Where is the way to the dwelling of light,
    and where is the place of darkness,
²⁰ that you may take it to its territory
    and that you may discern the paths to its home?^(G)
21 Surely you know, for you were born then,
    and the number of your days is great!^(H)