Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

8 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your Name in all the world; Who has set Your Glory above the heavens!

² Out of the mouth of children and infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies; that You might cease the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I behold Your heavens, the works of Your fingers; the moon and the stars which You have ordained,

⁴ what is man that You are mindful of him; and the son of man that You seek him?

⁵ For You have made him a little lower than God and crowned him with glory and worship.

⁶ You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands. You have put all things under his feet,

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

⁸ the birds of the air and the fish of the sea; that which passes through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your Name in all the world! To him who excels upon Muth Labben: A Psalm of David.

¹³ Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding.

¹⁴ For the merchandise thereof is better than the merchandise of silver. And the gain thereof is better than gold.

¹⁵ It is more precious than pearls. And all things that you can desire are not to be compared to her.

¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand; and in her right hand, riches and glory.

¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasure; and all her paths, peace.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. And blessed is he who retains her.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, might give to you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation through the knowledge of Him,

¹⁸ that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what the hope is of His calling, and what the riches are of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

¹⁹ and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His strength;