Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

8 Doth not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice?

² She standeth at the top of high places, by the wayside where the paths meet.

³ She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors:

⁴ “Unto you, O men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man.

²² “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old.

²³ I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

²⁴ When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.

²⁵ Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth,

²⁶ while as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the first parts of dust of the world.

²⁷ When He prepared the heavens, I was there; when He set a compass upon the face of the deep,

²⁸ when He established the clouds above, when He strengthened the fountains of the deep,

²⁹ when He gave to the sea His decree that the waters should not pass His commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth”

³⁰ then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him, and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him,

³¹ rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

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!

5 Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

² by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

³ And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

⁴ and patience, experience; and experience, hope;

⁵ and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost who is given unto us.

¹² “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

¹³ However when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth; for He shall not speak from Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak; and He will show you things to come.

¹⁴ He shall glorify Me, for He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it unto you.

¹⁵ All things that the Father hath are Mine; therefore I said that He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you.