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Daily Readings:
Friday, November 12, 2010
Complementary series (related to the lessons for the Sunday services)
Psalm 98
Psalm 98
1O sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.
2The Lord has made known his victory; he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations.
3He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.
4Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises.
5Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody.
6With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord.
7Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who live in it.
8Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills sing together for joy
9at the presence of the Lord, for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
2 Samuel 21:1-14
2 Samuel 21:1-14
21Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” 2So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had tried to wipe them out in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.) 3David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How shall I make expiation, that you may bless the heritage of the Lord?” 4The Gibeonites said to him, “It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put anyone to death in Israel.” He said, “What do you say that I should do for you?” 5They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel— 6let seven of his sons be handed over to us, and we will impale them before the Lord at Gibeon on the mountain of the Lord.” The king said, “I will hand them over.” 7But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul. 8The king took the two sons of Rizpah daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite; 9he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they impaled them on the mountain before the Lord. The seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest.
10Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it on a rock for herself, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell on them from the heavens; she did not allow the birds of the air to come on the bodies by day, or the wild animals by night. 11When David was told what Rizpah daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done, 12David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the people of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hung them up, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa. 13He brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who had been impaled. 14They buried the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of his father Kish; they did all that the king commanded. After that, God heeded supplications for the land.
2 Thessalonians 1:3-12
2 Thessalonians 1:3-123We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of everyone of you for one another is increasing. 4Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith during all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring.
5This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, and is intended to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering. 6For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9These will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at on that day among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
11To this end we always pray for you, asking that our God will make you worthy of his call and will fulfill by his power every good resolve and work of faith, 12so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Semicontinuous series (related to the lessons for the Saturday service)
Isaiah 12
Isaiah 12
12You will say in that day: I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me. 2Surely God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid, for the Lord God is my strength and my might; he has become my salvation. 3With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
4And you will say in that day: Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known his deeds among the nations; proclaim that his name is exalted. 5Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be known in all the earth. 6Shout aloud and sing for joy, O royal Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 59:1-15a
Isaiah 59:1-15a
59See, the Lord’s hand is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. 2Rather, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. 3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness. 4No one brings suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, conceiving mischief and begetting iniquity. 5They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web; whoever eats their eggs dies, and the crushed egg hatches out a viper. 6Their webs cannot serve as clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands. 7Their feet run to evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their highways. 8The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths. Their roads they have made crooked; no one who walks in them knows peace.
9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us; we wait for light, and lo! there is darkness; and for brightness, but we walk in gloom. 10We grope like the blind along a wall, groping like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among the vigorous as though we were dead. 11We all growl like bears; like doves we moan mournfully. We wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. 12For our transgressions before you are many, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions indeed are with us, and we know our iniquities: 13transgressing, and denying the Lord, and turning away from following our God, talking oppression and revolt, conceiving lying words and uttering them from the heart. 14Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands at a distance; for truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter. 15Truth is lacking, and whoever turns from evil is despoiled. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
2 Thessalonians 1:3-12
2 Thessalonians 1:3-123We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of everyone of you for one another is increasing. 4Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith during all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring.
5This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, and is intended to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering. 6For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7and to give relief to the afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels 8in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9These will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at on that day among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
11To this end we always pray for you, asking that our God will make you worthy of his call and will fulfill by his power every good resolve and work of faith, 12so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Alternate Daily Readings:
November 12th, 2010
[-] [+] Friday of Third Last Sunday
Read today's Higher Things Daily Reflection
Collect
Almighty God, we implore You, show Your mercy to Your humble servants that we, who put no trust in our own merits, may not be dealt with after the severity of Your judgment but according to Your mercy; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
First Reading: Jer. 25:1-18
Seventy Years of Captivity
1(A) The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), 2which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: 3"For twenty-three years,(B) from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken(C) persistently to you,(D) but you have not listened. 4(E) You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD(F) persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets, 5saying,(G) 'Turn now, every one of you,(H) from his evil way and evil deeds, and(I) dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever. 6(J) Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them,(K) or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.' 7(L) Yet you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
8"Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, 9(M) behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,(N) my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction,(O) and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. 10Moreover,(P) I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride,(Q) the grinding of the millstones and(R) the light of the lamp. 11(S) This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and(T) these nations shall serve the king of Babylon(U) seventy years. 12Then after(V) seventy years are completed,(W) I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste. 13I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written(X) in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. 14(Y) For many nations(Z) and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands."
The Cup of the LORD’s Wrath
15Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me:(AA) "Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. 16They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of(AB) the sword that I am sending among them."
17So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand,(AC) and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it: 18(AD) Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials,(AE) to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;
Cross references:Jeremiah 25:1 : Jeremiah 1:3; 36:1; 2 Kgs 24:1 Jeremiah 25:3 : Jeremiah 1:2 Jeremiah 25:3 : Jeremiah 7:13; 11:7, 8; 26:5; 29:19; 32:33; 35:14; 2 Chr 36:15 Jeremiah 25:3 : Jeremiah 7:13 Jeremiah 25:4 : Jeremiah 25:3 Jeremiah 25:4 : Jeremiah 25:3 Jeremiah 25:5 : Jeremiah 18:11 Jeremiah 25:5 : Jeremiah 23:22 Jeremiah 25:5 : Jeremiah 7:7 Jeremiah 25:6 : Jeremiah 7:6 Jeremiah 25:6 : Jeremiah 32:30 Jeremiah 25:7 : Jeremiah 25:6 Jeremiah 25:9 : Jeremiah 1:15 Jeremiah 25:9 : Jeremiah 27:6; 43:10; Isa 44:28; 45:1; Ezek 29:18-20 Jeremiah 25:9 : Jeremiah 18:16 Jeremiah 25:10 : Jeremiah 7:34 Jeremiah 25:10 : Eccles 12:4; Rev 18:22 Jeremiah 25:10 : Rev 18:23 Jeremiah 25:11 : Jeremiah 25:9 Jeremiah 25:11 : Jeremiah 28:14; Jeremiah 27:3-6 Jeremiah 25:11 : 2 Chr 36:21, 22; Ezra 1:1; Dan 9:2; Isa 23:15 Jeremiah 25:12 : Jeremiah 25:11 Jeremiah 25:12 : Jeremiah 51:24, 26, 62; Isa 13:19 Jeremiah 25:13 : Jeremiah 46–51 Jeremiah 25:14 : Jeremiah 27:7; 50:9, 41; 51:27, 28 Jeremiah 25:14 : Jeremiah 50:29; 51:6, 24 Jeremiah 25:15 : Jeremiah 49:12; 51:7; Job 21:20; Psalm 60:3; 75:8; Isa 51:17; Lam 4:21; Rev 14:10 Jeremiah 25:16 : Jeremiah 47:6 Jeremiah 25:17 : Isa 51:22, 23 Jeremiah 25:18 : Zech 12:2 Jeremiah 25:18 : Jeremiah 18:16
Second Reading: Matt. 26:1-19
The Plot to Kill Jesus
1When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, 2(A) "You know that after two days(B) the Passover is coming, and(C) the Son of Man(D) will be delivered up to be crucified."
3(E) Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in(F) the palace of the high priest, whose name was(G) Caiaphas, 4(H) and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. 5But they said, "Not during the feast,(I) lest there be an uproar among the people."
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
6(J) Now when Jesus was at(K) Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,[a] 7a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. 8And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste? 9For this could have been sold for a large sum and(L) given to the poor." 10But(M) Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me. 11For(N) you always have the poor with you, but(O) you will not always have me. 12In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it(P) to prepare me for burial. 13Truly, I say to you, wherever(Q) this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told(R) in memory of her."
Judas to Betray Jesus
14(S) Then one of the twelve, whose name was(T) Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they(U) paid him(V) thirty pieces of silver. 16And from that moment he sought an opportunity(W) to betray him.
The Passover with the Disciples
17(X) Now on(Y) the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?" 18He said, "Go into the city to a certain man and say to him,(Z) 'The Teacher says,(AA) My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.'" 19And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.
Footnotes:Matthew 26:6 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
Cross references:Matthew 26:2 : For Matthew 26:2-5, Mark 14:1, 2; Luke 22:1, 2 Matthew 26:2 : John 6:4 Matthew 26:2 : Matthew 26:24 Matthew 26:2 : Matthew 20:18, 19 Matthew 26:3 : Psalm 2:2; John 11:47; Acts 4:27 Matthew 26:3 : Matthew 26:58, 69; Luke 11:21; John 18:15; Rev 11:2 Matthew 26:3 : Matthew 26:57; Luke 3:2; John 11:49; 18:13; Acts 4:6 Matthew 26:4 : John 11:53; Matthew 21:46 Matthew 26:5 : Matthew 27:24 Matthew 26:6 : For Matthew 26:6-13, Mark 14:3-9; John 12:1-8; Luke 7:37-39 Matthew 26:6 : Matthew 21:17; John 11:18 Matthew 26:9 : John 13:29 Matthew 26:10 : Matthew 16:8 Matthew 26:11 : Deut 15:11 Matthew 26:11 : Matthew 9:15; John 7:33 Matthew 26:12 : John 19:40 Matthew 26:13 : Matthew 24:14 Matthew 26:13 : Acts 10:4 Matthew 26:14 : For Matthew 26:14-16, Mark 14:10, 11; Luke 22:3-6; John 13:2, 27, 30 Matthew 26:14 : Matthew 10:4; 27:3; Acts 1:16; John 6:71; 12:4 Matthew 26:15 : Zech 11:12; Gen 23:16; Jer 32:9 Matthew 26:15 : Matthew 27:3, 9; Exodus 21:32 Matthew 26:16 : Matthew 20:18, 19 Matthew 26:17 : For Matthew 26:17-19, Mark 14:12-16; Luke 22:7-13 Matthew 26:17 : Exodus 12:18 Matthew 26:18 : John 11:28 Matthew 26:18 : Matthew 26:45; John 7:6, 8, 30; 8:20; 13:1; 17:1
Friday Father Reading
"He receives the Mystery in ignorance who does not know its power and dignity. He is ignorant that this is the Body and the Blood according to the truth. He receives the Mysteries but does not know the blessing of the Mysteries. Solomon - or rather the Holy Spirit in Solomon - says to him, 'When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is set before you.' (Prov. 23:1)." [Isychius of Jerusalem. "Book 6 on Leviticus." 7th Century]
All Scripture Readings: English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.
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