Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

8 Doth not wisdom call? And understanding give forth her voice?

² At the head of high places by the way, Between the paths she hath stood,

³ At the side of the gates, at the mouth of the city, The entrance of the openings, she crieth aloud,

⁴ `Unto you, O men, I call, And my voice [is] unto the sons of men.

²² Jehovah possessed me -- the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.

²³ From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.

²⁴ In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy [with] waters,

²⁵ Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.

²⁶ While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.

²⁷ In His preparing the heavens I [am] there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,

²⁸ In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,

²⁹ In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,

³⁰ Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight -- day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,

³¹ Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights [are] with the sons of men.

8 To the Overseer, `On the Gittith.' A Psalm of David. Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth! Who settest thine honour on the heavens.

² From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

³ For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.

⁴ What [is] man that Thou rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him?

⁵ And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.

⁶ Thou dost cause him to rule Over the works of Thy hands, All Thou hast placed under his feet.

⁷ Sheep and oxen, all of them, And also beasts of the field,

⁸ Bird of the heavens, and fish of the sea, Passing through the paths of the seas!

⁹ Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth!

5 Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

² through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

³ And not only [so], but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

⁴ and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

⁵ and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

¹² `I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear [them] now;

¹³ and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

¹⁴ He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you.

¹⁵ `All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you;