Sunday, June 12, 2022

Pastor Cheryl Arnold

Peace with Justice Sunday

Wisdom - More Than We Thought

Scripture

Psalm 8 New Revised Standard Version

Lord, our Lord, how majestic
is your name throughout the earth!
You made your glory higher than heaven![b]
2 From the mouths of nursing babies
you have laid a strong foundation
because of your foes,
in order to stop vengeful enemies.
3 When I look up at your skies,
at what your fingers made—
the moon and the stars
that you set firmly in place—
4 what are human beings
that you think about them;
what are human beings
that you pay attention to them?
5 You’ve made them only slightly less than divine,
crowning them with glory and grandeur.
6 You’ve let them rule over your handiwork,
putting everything under their feet—
7 all sheep and all cattle,
the wild animals too,
8 the birds in the sky,
the fish of the ocean,
everything that travels the pathways of the sea.
9 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Common English Bible

8 Doesn’t Wisdom cry out
    and Understanding shout?
2 Atop the heights along the path,
    at the crossroads she takes her stand.
3 By the gate before the city,
    at the entrances she shouts:

4 I cry out to you, people;
    my voice goes out to all of humanity.

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22 The Lord created me at the beginning of his way,
before his deeds long in the past.
23 I was formed in ancient times,
at the beginning, before the earth was.
24 When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth,
when there were no springs flowing with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled,
before the hills, I was brought forth;
26 before God[a] made the earth and the fields
or the first of the dry land.
27 I was there when he established the heavens,
when he marked out the horizon on the deep sea,
28 when he thickened the clouds above,
when he secured the fountains of the deep,
29 when he set a limit for the sea,
so the water couldn’t go beyond his command,
when he marked out the earth’s foundations.
30 I was beside him as a master of crafts.[b]
I was having fun,
smiling before him all the time,
31 frolicking with his inhabited earth
and delighting in the human race.