Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David, the slave of the LORD, who spoke unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,

¹ ¶ I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

² The LORD is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

³ I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, so shall I be saved from my enemies.

²⁰ ¶ The LORD will reward me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he shall recompense me.

²¹ Because I have kept the ways of the LORD and did not become wicked departing in apostasy from my God.

²² For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

²³ I was perfect before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

²⁴ Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands before his eyes.

²⁵ With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with a perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;

²⁶ with the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt show thyself adversary.

²⁷ Therefore thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down high looks.

²⁸ For thou wilt light my fire: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

²⁹ ¶ For with thee I have scattered armies; and in my God I have overcome walled defenses.

³⁰ As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is precise: a shield to all those that wait in him.

³¹ For who is God except the LORD? or who is a refuge except our God?

³² It is God that girds me with strength and makes my way perfect.

¹⁴ ¶ Therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that have taken rule over this people which is in Jerusalem.

¹⁵ Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we are at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood we have hid ourselves:

¹⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.

¹⁷ Judgment also will I lay to the line and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

¹⁸ And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

¹⁹ From the time that it goes forth, it shall take you: for it shall come suddenly, by day and by night: and it shall be that the terror only causes one to understand the report.

²⁰ For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

²¹ For the LORD shall rise up as in Mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

²² Now therefore do not be mockers lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of the hosts that consumption and destruction are determined upon the whole earth.

⁶ ¶ Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

⁷ a woman came unto him having an alabaster box of very precious ointment and poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

⁸ But when his disciples saw it, they became indignant, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

⁹ For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor.

¹⁰ But Jesus, understanding this, said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she has wrought a good work upon me.

¹¹ For ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.

¹² For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare for my burial.

¹³ Verily I say unto you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman has done, be told for a memorial of her.