Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the Overcomer upon Gittith, A Psalm of David.

¹ ¶ O LORD our Lord, how great is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy praise above the heavens.

² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou might still the enemy and the avenger.

³ ¶ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

⁴ what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou dost visit him?

⁵ For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and beauty.

⁶ Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

⁷ all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

⁸ The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O LORD our Lord, how great is thy name in all the earth!

¹² ¶ Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days? Hast thou shown the dayspring its place,

¹³ that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

¹⁴ It is transformed as clay to the seal and then stands as a garment;

¹⁵ but the light of the wicked is taken from them, and the high arm is broken.

¹⁶ Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked searching out the deep?

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

¹⁸ Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.

¹⁹ Where is the way to the habitation of the light, and where is the place of the darkness?

²⁰ If thou shalt take it in its borders, and if thou should understand the paths to its house?

²¹ If thou didst know when thou wast to be born or if the number of thy days was to be great?

¹² For which cause I also suffer these things; nevertheless, I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

¹³ Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and charity which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ Keep the good deposit committed unto thee by the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.