Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

8 Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.

² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;

⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

⁵ Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and splendour.

⁶ Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:

⁷ Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;

⁸ The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, [whatever] passeth through the paths of the seas.

⁹ Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

¹⁵ And Pharaoh heard of this matter, and sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from before Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian. And he sat by the well.

¹⁶ And the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew [water], and filled the troughs, to water their father's flock.

¹⁷ And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses rose and helped them, and watered their flock.

¹⁸ And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, Why are ye come so soon to-day?

¹⁹ And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew [water] abundantly for us, and watered the flock.

²⁰ And he said to his daughters, And where is he? why then have ye left the man behind? Call him, that he may eat bread.

²¹ And Moses consented to remain with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

²² And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign 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.