Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

8 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your Name in all the world; Who has set Your Glory above the heavens!

² Out of the mouth of children and infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies; that You might cease the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I behold Your heavens, the works of Your fingers; the moon and the stars which You have ordained,

⁴ what is man that You are mindful of him; and the son of man that You seek him?

⁵ For You have made him a little lower than God and crowned him with glory and worship.

⁶ You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands. You have put all things under his feet,

⁷ all sheep and oxen; indeed, and the beasts of the field,

⁸ the birds of the air and the fish of the sea; that which passes through the paths of the seas.

⁹ O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Your Name in all the world! To him who excels upon Muth Labben: A Psalm of David.

¹⁵ Now Pharaoh heard this matter and sought to kill Moses. Therefore, Moses fled from Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.

¹⁶ And the priest of Midian had seven daughters who came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s sheep.

¹⁷ Then, the shepherds came and drove them away. But Moses rose up and defended them and watered their sheep.

¹⁸ And when they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “Why have you come so soon today?”

¹⁹ And they said, “A man of Egypt delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and also drew us enough water and watered the sheep.

²⁰ Then he said to his daughters, “And, where is he? Why have you left the man so? Call him, so that he may eat.”

²¹ And Moses agreed to dwell with the man, who gave his daughter, Zipporah, to Moses.

²² And she bore a son, whose name he called, Gershom. For he said, “I have been a stranger in a strange land.”

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.”