Psalm 39
7Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. But you have perfected ears for me. Holocaust and sin offering, you did not require. 8Then I said, “Behold, I draw near.” At the head of the book, it has been written of me: 9that I should do your will. My God, I have willed it. And your law is in the midst of my heart. 10I have announced your justice in a great Church: behold, I will not restrain my lips. O Lord, you have known it. 11I have not concealed your justice within my heart. I have spoken your truth and your salvation. I have not concealed your mercy and your truth from a great assembly. 12O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me. 13For evils without number have surrounded me. My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see. They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. And my heart has forsaken me. 14Be pleased, O Lord, to rescue me. Look down, O Lord, to help me. 15Let them together be confounded and awed, who seek after my soul to steal it away. Let them be turned back and be in awe, who wish evils upon me. 16Let them bear their confusion all at once, who say to me, “Well, well.” 17Let all who seek you exult and rejoice over you. And let those who love your salvation always say, “May the Lord be magnified.”
Mark 3:7-12
7But Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. And a great crowd followed him from Galilee and Judea, 8and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and across the Jordan. And those around Tyre and Sidon, upon hearing what he was doing, came to him in a great multitude. 9And he told his disciples that a small boat would be useful to him, because of the crowd, lest they press upon him. 10For he healed so many, that as many of them as had wounds would rush toward him in order to touch him. 11And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell prostrate before him. And they cried out, saying, 12“You are the Son of God.” And he strongly admonished them, lest they make him known.