Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

You have set your glory
    in the heavens.
² You have made sure that children
    and infants praise you.
Their praise is a wall
    that stops the talk of your enemies.

³ I think about the heavens.
    I think about what your fingers have created.
I think about the moon and stars
    that you have set in place.
⁴ What are human beings that you think about them?
    What is a son of man that you take care of him?
⁵ You have made them a little lower than the angels.
    You placed on them a crown of glory and honor.

⁶ You made human beings rule over everything your hands created.
    You put everything under their control.
⁷ They rule over all flocks and herds
    and over the wild animals.
⁸ They rule over the birds in the sky
    and over the fish in the ocean.
    They rule over everything that swims in the oceans.

⁹ Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is your name in the whole earth!

² “Who do you think you are to disagree with my plans?
    You do not know what you are talking about.
³ Get ready to stand up for yourself.
    I will ask you some questions.
    Then I want you to answer me.

⁴ “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
    Tell me, if you know.
⁵ Who measured it? I am sure you know!
    Who stretched a measuring line across it?
⁶ What was it built on?
    Who laid its most important stone?
⁷ When it happened, the morning stars sang together.
    All the angels shouted with joy.

⁸ “Who created the ocean?
    Who caused it to be born?
⁹ I put clouds over it as if they were its clothes.
    I wrapped it in thick darkness.
¹⁰ I set limits for it.
    I put its doors and metal bars in place.
¹¹ I said, ‘You can come this far.
    But you can’t come any farther.
    Here is where your proud waves have to stop.’