Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,

18 I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

² Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

³ I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

²⁰ Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

²¹ For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

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

²³ And I was upright with him, and kept myself from mine iniquity.

²⁴ And Jehovah hath recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

²⁵ With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;

²⁶ With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.

²⁷ For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.

²⁸ For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.

²⁹ For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

³⁰ As for God, his way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is tried: he is a shield to all that trust in him.

³¹ For who is +God save Jehovah? and who is a rock if not our God?

³² The God who girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect,

¹⁴ Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

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

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

¹⁷ And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness for a 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 annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, ye shall be trodden down by it.

¹⁹ As it passeth through it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night; and it shall be terror only to understand the report.

²⁰ For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.

²¹ For Jehovah will rise up as on mount Perazim, he will be moved with anger as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and perform his act, his unwonted act.

²² Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, and [one] determined, upon the whole land.

⁶ But Jesus being in Bethany, in Simon the leper's house,

⁷ a woman, having an alabaster flask of very precious ointment, came to him and poured it out upon his head as he lay at table.

⁸ But the disciples seeing it became indignant, saying, To what end [was] this waste?

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

¹⁰ But Jesus knowing [it] said to them, Why do ye trouble the woman? for she has wrought a good work toward me.

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

¹² For in pouring out this ointment on my body, she has done it for my burying.

¹³ Verily I say to you, Wheresoever these glad tidings may be preached in the whole world, that also which this [woman] has done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.