Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church In America Daily Readings And Prayers For Wednesday, 16 March

From armenianchurch-ed.net, biblegateway.com:

Daily Readings and Prayers:


Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated:  Great Lent


Daily Prayers:

1st Prayer: March 16,2011


Chipped among the set of plates,

defective among the stones of the wall,

disdained among the ranks of the called,

lowest of the tribe of the elect,

weakest among those fearful of death,

most dejected with the pain of Jerusalem,

as mournful as Jeremiah’s words,

“My days have been wasted in wailing,

and the course of my years in crying.”

In the songs of the musician,



“Like wool eaten by moths, like wood

chewed up by worms.”

In the words of the wiseman,

“My heart was consumed by suspicion.”

In the words of the Psalmist,

“I unravelled like a spiderweb,

and became useless.”

In the words of the prophet,

“I have disappeared, evaporated like the morning cloud and the dew at dawn.”

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Scriptural Readings:

Exodus 2:11-22.

Exodus 2:11-22 (King James Version)




11And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.



12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.



13And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?



14And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.



15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.



16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.



17And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.



18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?



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



20And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.



21And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.



22And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.






Joel 2:1-11.

Joel 2:1-11 (King James Version)




Joel 2

1Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;



2A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.



3A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.



4The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.



5Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.



6Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.



7They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:



8Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.



9They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.



10The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:



11And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?






Micah 4:1-7

Micah 4:1-7 (King James Version)




Micah 4

1But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.



2And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.



3And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.



4But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.



5For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.



6In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;



7And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.






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