Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

18 I will love You dearly, O LORD, my strength.

² The LORD is my rock and my fortress; and He Who delivers me, my God and my strength. In Him will I trust. My shield. The horn, also, of my salvation. My refuge.

³ I will call upon the LORD, Who is worthy to be praised. So shall I be safe from my enemies.

²⁰ The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the pureness of my hand, He recompensed me,

²¹ because I kept the ways of the LORD and did not do wickedly against my God.

²² For all His laws were before me. And I did not cast away His Commandments from me.

²³ I was also upright with him and have kept myself from my wickedness.

²⁴ Therefore, the LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the pureness of my hands in His sight.

²⁵ With the godly, You will show Yourself godly. With the upright man, You will show Yourself upright.

²⁶ With the pure, You will show Yourself pure. And with the froward, You will show Yourself froward.

²⁷ Thus, You will save the poor people, and will cast down proud looks.

²⁸ Surely, You will light my candle. The LORD, my God, will lighten my darkness.

²⁹ For You I have broken through an army. And by my God I have leapt over a wall.

³⁰ The way of God is incorrupt. The Word of the LORD is tried in the fire. He is a shield to those who trust in Him.

³¹ For who is God besides the LORD? And who is mighty except our God?

³² God girds me with strength and makes my way upright.

¹⁴ Therefore, hear the Word of the LORD, you scornful men who rule this people who are at Jerusalem,

¹⁵ because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Hell are we in agreement. Though a scourge run over and pass through, it shall not come at us, for we have made falsehood our refuge, and under vanity are we hidden.”

¹⁶ Therefore, thus says the LORD God: “Behold, I will lay a stone in Zion, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. He who believes shall not hurry.

¹⁷ “I will also lay judgment to the rule, and righteousness to the balance. And the hail shall sweep away the vain confidence. And the waters shall overflow the secret place.

¹⁸ “And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand. When a scourge shall run over and pass through, then shall you be trampled down by it.

¹⁹ “When it passes over, it shall take you away. For it shall pass through every morning, in the day and in the night. And there shall be only fear to make you understand the hearing.”

²⁰ For the bed is so short that it cannot suffice, and the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself.

²¹ For the LORD shall stand, as on Mount Perazim. He shall be angry, as in the Valley of Gibeon, so 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 bonds increase. For I have heard the LORD of Hosts has determined a consumption upon the whole Earth.

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

⁷ a woman came to Him with a box of very costly ointment and poured it on His head as He sat at the table.

⁸ And when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?

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

¹⁰ And Jesus, knowing it, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me.

¹¹ “For you have the poor with you always. But Me you shall not have always.

¹² “For in pouring this ointment on My body, she did it for My burial.

¹³ “Truly I say to you, wherever this Gospel shall be preached throughout all the world, this that she has done shall also be spoken of, as a memorial of her.”