Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

8 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth, who hast set Thy glory above the heavens!

² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou ordained strength because of Thine enemies, that Thou mightest 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 honor.

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 fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!

¹³ Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding;

¹⁴ for the merchandising of it is better than the merchandising of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

¹⁵ She is more precious than rubies, and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared to her.

¹⁶ Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honor.

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

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy is everyone that retaineth her.

¹⁷ I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,

¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

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