Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

8 (For the one directing. According to the gittit. Mizmor of Dovid). Hashem Adoneinu, how excellent is Shimecha in kol ha’aretz Who hast set Thy glory above HaShomayim.

^2 (3) Out of the mouth of olelim and infants hast Thou established strength because of Thine enemies, that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

^3 (4) When I consider Thy heavens, the ma’asim of Thy fingers, the yarei’ach and the kokhavim, which Thou hast ordained;

^4 (5) What is enosh (mankind), that Thou art mindful of him? And the ben adam, that Thou visitest him?

^5 (6) For Thou hast made him a little lower than elohim [or Elohim, Gn 1:27], and hast crowned him with kavod and hadar.

^6 (7) Thou madest him to have dominion over the ma’asim of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:

^7 (8) All sheep and oxen, yea, and the behemot sadeh;

^8 (9) The fowl of the air, and the dag (fish) of the yam, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

^9 (10) Hashem Adoneinu, how excellent is Shimecha in kol ha’aretz!

¹² Hast thou commanded the boker since thy yamim began; or caused the shachar (dawn) to know its place;

¹³ That it might seize the ends of ha’aretz, that the resha’im be shaken out of it?

¹⁴ It is changed like chomer (clay) under the khotam (seal); and they stand out like a garment.

¹⁵ And from the resha’im their ohr is denied, and the upraised zero’a shall be broken.

¹⁶ Hast thou entered into the springs of the yam? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the tehom?

¹⁷ Have the sha’arei mavet been disclosed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the sha’arei tzalmavet?

¹⁸ Hast thou perceived the expanse of eretz? Tell Me if thou hast da’as of it all.

¹⁹ Where is the derech where ohr dwelleth? And as for choshech, where is the place thereof,

²⁰ That thou shouldest take it to its border, and that thou shouldest have da’as of the paths to its bais?

²¹ Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? Or because the mispar of thy yamim is so great?

¹² It is because of these things also that I suffer. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and I have been persuaded that He is able to stand shomer, guarding [preserving] until HaYom HaHu the [orthodox Jewish, see 1Ti 6:20] pikkadon (deposit) entrusted to Him by me.

¹³ Follow the pattern of sound orthodox Jewish devarim which you heard from me, in emunah and ahavah in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.

¹⁴ Stand shomer over the orthodox Jewish pikkadon entrusted to you through the Ruach Hakodesh dwelling in us.