Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁶ Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters,

¹⁷ who bringeth forth chariot and horse, army and power—they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as tow:

¹⁸ —Remember not the former things, neither consider the ancient things:

¹⁹ behold, I do a new thing; now it shall spring forth: shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the waste.

²⁰ The beast of the field shall glorify me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I will give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the waste, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

²¹ This people have I formed for myself: they shall shew forth my praise.

A Song of degrees.

126 When Jehovah turned the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

² Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath done great things for them.

³ Jehovah hath done great things for us; [and] we are joyful.

⁴ Turn our captivity, O Jehovah, as the streams in the south.

⁵ They that sow in tears shall reap with rejoicing:

⁶ He goeth forth and weepeth, bearing seed for scattering; he cometh again with rejoicing, bearing his sheaves.

⁴ Though *I* have [my] trust even in flesh; if any other think to trust in flesh, *I* rather:

⁵ as to circumcision, [I received it] the eighth day; of [the] race of Israel, of [the] tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to [the] law, a Pharisee;

⁶ as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which [is] in [the] law, found blameless;

⁷ but what things were gain to me these I counted, on account of Christ, loss.

⁸ But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

⁹ and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which [would be] on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which [is] of God through faith,

¹⁰ to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

¹¹ if any way I arrive at the resurrection from among [the] dead.

¹² Not that I have already obtained [the prize], or am already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may get possession [of it], seeing that also I have been taken possession of by Christ [Jesus].

¹³ Brethren, *I* do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing—forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,

¹⁴ I pursue, [looking] towards [the] goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

12 Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was the dead [man] Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from among [the] dead.

² There therefore they made him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those at table with him.

³ Mary therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure nard of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

⁴ One of his disciples therefore, Judas [son] of Simon, Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says,

⁵ Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?

⁶ But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into [it].

⁷ Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial;

⁸ for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.