Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Your glory is sung above the heavens.
² From the mouths of little children and infants,
you have built a fortress against your opponents
to silence the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I look at your heavens,
the creation of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have set in place—
⁴ what is a mortal that you remember him
or the Son of Man that you take care of him?
⁵ You have made him a little lower than yourself.
You have crowned him with glory and honor.
⁶ You have made him rule what your hands created.
You have put everything under his control:
⁷ all the sheep and cattle, the wild animals,
⁸ the birds, the fish,
whatever swims in the currents of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!

¹² “Have you ever given orders to the morning
or assigned a place for the dawn
¹³ so that it could grab the earth by its edges
and shake wicked people out of it?
¹⁴ The earth changes like clay stamped by a seal,
and ⌞parts of it⌟ stand out like ⌞folds in⌟ clothing.
¹⁵ Wicked people are deprived of their light,
and an arm raised ⌞in victory⌟ is broken.
¹⁶ Have you gone to the springs in the sea
or walked through the valleys of the ocean depths?
¹⁷ Have the gateways to death been revealed to you,
or have you seen the gateways to total darkness?
¹⁸ Have you ⌞even⌟ considered how wide the earth is?
Tell me, if you know all of this!

¹⁹ “What is the way to the place where light lives?
Where is the home of darkness
²⁰ so that you may lead it to its territory,
so that you may know the path to its home?
²¹ You must know because you were born then
and have lived such a long time!