Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)
Psalm 8
For the choir director; on the gittith;[a] a psalm by David.
1 O Yahweh, our Adonay, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!
Your glory is sung above the heavens.[b]
2 From the mouths of little children and infants,
you have built a fortress against your opponents
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens,
the creation of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have set in place—
4 what is a mortal that you remember him
or the Son of Man that you take care of him?
5 You have made him a little lower than yourself.
You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have made him rule what your hands created.
You have put everything under his control:
7 all the sheep and cattle, the wild animals,
8 the birds, the fish,
whatever swims in the currents of the seas.
9 O Yahweh, our Adonay, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!
13 Blessed is the one who finds wisdom
and the one who obtains understanding.
14 The profit gained from wisdom is greater than
the profit gained from silver.
Its yield is better than fine gold.
15 Wisdom is more precious than jewels,
and all your desires cannot equal it.
16 Long life is in wisdom’s right hand.
In wisdom’s left hand are riches and honor.
17 Wisdom’s ways are pleasant ways,
and all its paths lead to peace.
18 Wisdom is a tree of life
for those who take firm hold of it.
Those who cling to it are blessed.
17 I pray that the glorious Father, the God of our Lord Yeshua Christ, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know Christ better. 18 Then you will have deeper insight. You will know the confidence that he calls you to have and the glorious wealth that God’s people will inherit. 19 You will also know the unlimited greatness of his power as it works with might and strength for us, the believers.
The Names of God Bible (without notes) © 2011 by Baker Publishing Group.