Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

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!

¹² “Have you ever given orders to the morning
    or assigned a place for the dawn
¹³ so that it could grab the earth by its edges
    and shake wicked people out of it?
¹⁴ The earth changes like clay stamped by a seal,
    and parts of it stand out like folds in clothing.
¹⁵ Wicked people are deprived of their light,
    and an arm raised in victory is broken.
¹⁶ Have you gone to the springs in the sea
    or walked through the valleys of the ocean depths?
¹⁷ Have the gateways to death been revealed to you,
    or have you seen the gateways to total darkness?
¹⁸ Have you even considered how wide the earth is?
    Tell me, if you know all of this!

¹⁹ “What is the way to the place where light lives?
    Where is the home of darkness
²⁰ so that you may lead it to its territory,
    so that you may know the path to its home?
²¹ You must know because you were born then
    and have lived such a long time!