Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

8 Does not wisdom call,
    and understanding raise its voice?
² Atop the heights^[a] beside the road,
    at the crossroads she stands.
³ Beside gates, before towns,
    at the entrance of doors, she cries out:
⁴ “To you, O people,^[b] I call,
    and my cry is to the children of humankind.

²² “Yahweh possessed^[a] me, the first of his ways,
    before his acts of old.^[b]
23 From eternity, I was set up from the first,
    from the beginning^[c] of the earth.
²⁴ When there were no depths, I was brought forth,
    when there were no springs of abounding^[d] water.
²⁵ Before mountains had been shaped,
    before hills, I was brought forth.
²⁶ When he had not yet made earth and fields,
    or the first dust of the world,
²⁷ when he established^[e] the heavens, there I was,
    when he drew^[f] a circle upon the face of the deep,
²⁸ when he made^[g] skies from above,
    when he founded fountains of the deep,
²⁹ when he assigned^[h] his limits to the sea,
    that waters shall not transgress his command,^[i]
    when he marked^[j] the foundations of the earth,
³⁰ I was beside^[k] him, a master workman,
    and I was delighting day by day,
    rejoicing before him always,^[l]
31 rejoicing in the world of his earth,
    and my delight was with the children of humankind.

8 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth,
who put your splendor above the heavens.
² From the mouth of children and infants you have founded^[c] strength
on account of your enemies,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
³ When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars which you set in place—
⁴ what is a human being that you think of him?
and a child of humankind that you care for him?
⁵ And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings,^[d]
and with glory and with majesty you crowned him.
⁶ You make him over the works of your hands;
all things you have placed under his feet:
⁷ sheep and cattle, all of them,
and also the wild animals of the field,
⁸ the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea,
everything that passes along the paths of seas.
⁹ Yahweh, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all of the earth!